Eureka | Trailer | NYFF61

The protean Argentinean director Lisandro Alonso (La Libertad, NYFF39; Jauja, NYFF52) continues to shapeshift, delight, and challenge with his marvelous and immersive new film, which takes the viewer on an unexpected journey through three stories set in wildly different terrain, each of them reflecting lives haunted by the specter of colonialist violence. In the first, Viggo Mortensen and Chiara Mastroianni guest-star in a black-and-white neo-Western pastiche following a taciturn gunslinger seeking revenge in a lawless frontier town. In the second section, in a different kind of law-and-order narrative, set during the present day in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, we accompany a Native American cop (Alaina Clifford) on her nighttime patrols, revealing a community troubled by addiction and poverty, but also, because of the cop’s good-hearted basketball coach niece (Sadie Lapointe), touched by transcendence. Finally, the film travels to the magnificent Brazilian rainforest of the 1970s, where Indigenous workers pan for gold while articulating their dream lives. Cleverly transitioning between segments without hand-holding the viewer, Alonso has created an improbably unified aesthetic experience that leaves it up to us to make the connections among its transient worlds.

[bebaguette]

Loved his previous one, this looks crazy ambitious, glad to see Viggo in western mode again.

[paperprincess]

Thank you to all involved in this movie.

[moeezS]

Jauja was amazing. Can't wait to see this, hope it comes to the UK!

[miguelangelchoquequispe]

Today, March 14 2024, the movie was released in theaters of Argentina. I hope see it someday.

[jessedampolo]

Looks incredible, as usual for Linsandro Alonso.

[toddpinkstonisgod]

Lisandro Alonso is one of the most underrated filmmakers of world cinema. His previous one Jauja was especially amazing, and it looks like this one could be at least as special.

[branpred]

Please get American distribution soon!!!

[muchachaviaja]

Anyone can confirm if the move is entirely in English?

[charleshamilton]

God, what an utter waste of talent, time, resources.

[curiositytax]

Is this inspired by Nic Roeg’s Eureka? Reading the synopsis, it feels like it is.