Eureka

Director: Lisandro Alonso

2023 / 147min / DCP

Reuniting with Viggo Mortensen, star of his 2014 Jauja, Alonso’s latest cinematic reverie is a stunning stylistic shapeshifter, its triptych of beguiling, fable-like tales united by their engagement with Indigenous culture in the Americas. Gruff gunslinger Mortensen’s frontier town encounter with Chiara Mastroianni is followed by the spare narrative of a policewoman (Alaina Clifford) making her rounds in a Lakota Sioux reservation in present-day South Dakota, from where another bold narrative leap lands us amongst a tribal community in the Amazon basin c. 1970. Spanning epochs and continents, Alonso’s elusive and at times almost hallucinatory film is an extraordinarily rich open-ended work of, per the director, “uncertain conclusions,” brimming with ambiguous allusions and unexpected associations.

A Film Movement release