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Eureka

Directed by Lisandro Alonso
Film Movement
2023
147 Minutes
Argentina, France, Portugal, Germany, Mexico
English, Lakota, Portuguese
Drama
Not Rated
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Traversing time, space and genre, Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso (Jauja) presents an elliptical meditation on the experiences of indigenous communities across the Americas. Opening in a dusty town of the Old West, reality soon transitions to contemporary South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation before finally landing in the jungles of 1970s Brazil. As the triptych unfolds, each temporal and spatial shift provokes metaphysical questions about colonial influence on native peoples and the ever-present tensions between indigeneity and the Western world. Featuring three-time Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, EUREKA is a graceful refraction of history and place, marking it Alonso’s “most expansive and ambitious film to date” (Screen Anarchy).

Director & Cast

  • Director: Lisandro Alonso
  • Starring: Viggo Mortensen
  • Starring: Chiara Mastroianni
  • Starring: Alaina Clifford
  • Starring: Sadie LaPointe
  • Starring: Viilbjørk Malling Agger

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  • "An intriguingly languorous, visually audacious drama from the Argentine director Lisandro Alonso, is about the existential plight of modern-day Indigenous Americans — people too often trapped in the fictions created by others...[Sadie] LaPointe’s is a beautiful performance."
    Beatrice Loayza, The New York Times
  • "Rich... in visual and ambient pleasures. [B]ristles with agile ideas and inventive image-making...."
    Guy Lodge, Variety
  • "Pure arthouse bliss. It’s stunning."
    David Fear, Rolling Stone
  • "Heady, intoxicating...."
    Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine
  • "[An] occasionally beautiful, occasionally beguiling, and occasionally confounding triptych about the material and political issue of colonialism and the spiritual issue of what is home."
    Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
  • "There is a sort of sensory perception, a feeling that through drifting downstream along the river course of this film and gazing at the foliage on either bank, some progress of the soul is being achieved. It is an enriching experience."
    Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
  • "Alonso’s latest is his most ambitious: a tripartite film, Eureka sides not with the white strangers in strange lands that had long peopled Alonso’s oeuvre, but with the native communities facing these invaders."
    Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage
  • "Lushly lensed and intensely cerebral...Though each narrative is carefully blended from one to the next, Eureka EUREKA is best internalized as an immersive exploration of Indigenous identity in response to white supremacist subjugation."
    Natalia Keogan, Paste
  • "[Alonso's] most ambitious and audacious..."
    Dhruv Goyal, In Review
  • "His most expansive and ambitious film to date. "
    Dustin Chang, Screen Anarchy
  • "Alonso stitches indigenous stories and experiences across centuries and continents to create a mystical mobius strip of a film."
    Leslie Felperin, Financial TImes
  • "Lisandro Alonso’s triptych western is a deliriously intriguing and mind bending cinematic experience...A visually-arresting, melancholic and wondrously metaphorical look at history, violence and colonialism, Alonso confirms him as an authentic Latin American auteur."
    Roger Costa, Brazilian Press
  • "EUREKA offers a deeply mesmerizing glance into Indigeneity in a post-colonial world...[Alonso] voyages through the limits of space and time to probe the Western forces that have (and continue to) disenfranchise Indigenous communities not only in the Americas but across the globe."
    Colton Peregoy, Foremost Film
  • "EUREKA is three of the year's best movies...[it's] disparate parts end up being so cohesive that they are, paradoxically, difficult to talk about. You could read a straight summary of the film and everything would make sense, but so much of the joy of the film is found in watching things unfold and discovering just how these ideas fade into each other."
    Alex Rudolph, Movie Jawn
  • "Lisandro Alonso orchestrates a spellbinding cinematic tapestry in EUREKA, challenging traditional film genres' confines. This ambitious film captures a journey through time and culture, exploring the impact of colonialism on Indigenous populations; with compelling performances by Viggo Mortensen as Murphy and Chiara Mastroianni as Maya el Coronel, the movie maps the intersections of identity and history across continents and eras, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in its visually stunning, non-linear narrative."
    Chris Jones, Overly Honest Reviews
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