Aurélia (1980): cast, story & where to watch
1980 · Film · ★ 6
Released in 1980, Aurélia is a notable film directed by Arcangelo Mazzoleni, running about 10 minutes.
What it’s about. Inspired by the short story Aurélia (1854) by Gérard de Nerval, which will influence André Breton and the Surrealists, the film tells, with a contracted rhythm and visual accelerations / dilations, the daily experience of a woman projecting her into an interior dimension where reality and myth are mixed and fused by a dreamlike syntax. In the "descent into hell" of consciousness, Aurélia ends up by detaching herself from her identity as a woman of today to take on the multiple features prefigured, from time to time, by her imagination. Aurélia's frenetic final dance serves as a ceremony to exorcise evil, the furious rediscovery of the “double” savage buried within each of us, the abrupt awakening of the possessed bacchant, liberated vitalism, myth, explosion of fantastic energies. Aurélia faces a discourse on filmic time: real time is decomposed analyzed accelerated in lightning-fast mental paths from a stream of consciousness.
Who’s in it. Aurélia stars Mariella Buscemi.
How it landed. With an audience score of 6.0/10, Aurélia has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.
Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Aurélia page.
Frequently asked
- Where can I watch Aurélia (1980)?
- Streaming, rental and purchase options for Aurélia change frequently. Check our where-to-watch page for the latest availability in your country.
- Is Aurélia worth watching?
- Aurélia holds an audience score of 6.0 out of 10. Reactions are mixed, so it may depend on taste.
- Who stars in Aurélia?
- Aurélia stars Mariella Buscemi.
- When was Aurélia released?
- Aurélia was released in 1980, with a runtime of about 10 minutes.