Eureka | A film by Lisandro Alonso
In UK cinemas from 8 March 2024
Synopsis
Eureka is a bird that flies across different geographies of the American continent, in its flights it also travels through time, she likes the Indians.
With luck, listening to her words, we will come to understand how difficult it is to become human beings.
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About the film
Genre: Drama, Western
Language: English, North American Indian, Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 146’
Production year: 2023
Synopsis
Alaina is tired of being a police officer in the Pine Ridge Reservation, and decides to stop answering her radio.
Her niece Sadie spends a long night waiting for her, to no avail.
Hurt, she decides to begin her journey with the help of her grandfather: she will fly through time and space to South America, finally she will stop watching old black and white westerns that do not represent her in any way, and everything will feel different when she hears the dreams of other people, those who live in the forest.
But there will be no definitive conclusions…
Birds don’t talk to humans, yet if only we could understand them, they would surely have a few truths to tell us.
Director - Lisandro Alonso
Born in 1975 in Buenos Aires, Lisandro Alonso studied for three years at the Universidad del Cine.
His first feature film, La Libertad, which focuses on the relationship between a lonely lumberjack and his environment, premiered in Cannes in the section 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.
Ten years after this dazzling film, Alonso surrounds himself with a renowned cast, with Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni and Maria de Medeiros, in his new feature film EUREKA premiered at Cannes Première.
Cast & crew
Cast
Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Director
Lisandro Alonso
Screenplay
Lisandro Alonso, Martín Caamaño
Cinematographer
Mauro Herce
Producers
Carine Leblanc, Marianne Slot
Executive Producers
Andy Kleinman, Andreas Roald, Dan Wechsler
Co-producers
Carla Badillo, Maria Jose Cordova, Jonas Dornbach, Rodrigo Sebastian Gonzalez, Rafael Ley, Roberto Minervini, Fiorella Moretti, Denise Ping Lee, Olivier Père, Regina Solórzano, Hédi Zardi
Festivals and Awards
Reviews
“Eureka is a heady, thought-provoking and often beautiful experience, artistic minimalism at its most elasticated and textured”
"Vivid and beautiful. Alonso’s imagining of the Old West as a lawless Sodom, complete with boozehound nuns, is as imaginative as anything he’s made.”
Ryan Akler-Bishop, Our Culture
“Some of the most spellbinding images of the year.”
Savina Petkova, The Playlist
“Eureka seeks to rewrite the legacy of the Native American people and map their territory through a narrative diptych from north to south, covering all that territory with a spell that only cinema can cast.”
Paula Arantzazu Ruiz, Espinof
“Eureka is executed with undeniable audacity, and the ride is genuinely surprising and unpredictable.”
Jonathan Romney, Screen International
“It is entirely fascinating.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian