Eureka

“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

“Pure arthouse bliss. It’s stunning.”– David Fear, Rolling Stone

“Heady, intoxicating….”– Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine

“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

Roger Costa, Brazilian PressTraversing 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 Mortenson, EUREKA is a graceful refraction of history and place, marking it Alonso’s “most expansive and ambitious film to date” (Screen Anarchy).