Eureka

Featuring three-time Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, "Eureka" is a graceful refraction of history and place, marking it as Alonso’s 'most expansive and ambitious film to date.'

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Original title: Eureka Year of Production: 2023 Duration: 146 min Country of Production: France, Argentina, Germany, Portugal, Mexico Languages: English, Portuguese, Lakota, Chatino Subtitles: English Director: Lisandro Alonso Cinematographer: Timo Salminen, Mauro Herce Mira Editor: Gonzalo del Val Sound Design: Catriel Vildosola Producer: Marianne Slot, Carine Leblanc

Opening in a dusty archetypical western town, with an archetypical cowboy, Viggo Mortensen, on an archetypical revenge mission. But wait... this is 'just' a film within the film, which then transports the viewer to South Dakota’s contemporary Pine Ridge Reservation, where native police officer Aliana is confronted by the consequences—violence, public drunkenness—of grinding poverty.

As the triptych unfolds, each temporal and spatial shift provokes metaphysical questions about the colonial influence on native peoples and the ever-present tensions between indigeneity and the Western world.

"Pure arthouse bliss. It’s stunning." — David Fear, Rolling Stone‍

"Bristles with agile ideas and inventive image-making... its elasticity of form and narrative perhaps alluding to a history forever repeating and doubling back onto itself." — Guy Lodge, Variety

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Eureka

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His film “La Libertad” was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. His 2014 film “Jauja” competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His 2023 film “Eureka,” featuring Viggo Mortensen, screened at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Born in Buenos Aires, Lisandro Alonso studied for three years at the Universidad del Cine. After co-directing his first short film Dos En La Vereda in 1995, he worked as an assistant director and sound designer until 2000. His first feature film, La Libertad, which focuses on the relationship between a lonely lumberjack and his environment, premiered in Un Certain Regard. After creating his own production company 4L, Alonso returned to Cannes in 2004 with Los Muertos, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight. Two years later, he completed his trilogy with Fantasma. In 2008, the director decided to lean toward a more fictional approach with Liverpool, following a young sailor looking for his mother in the lost villages of Tierra del Fuego. Five years later, Jauja, set in 19th century Denmark and Argentina and starring Danish actor Viggo Mortensen, won the FIPRESCI award in the section Un Certain Regard.

"If people are provoked, I’m happy!"

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