‘Eureka’ from Arengtine film-maker Lisandra Alonso is coming to cinemas on 16th February 2024.
The film, which was written by Alonso with Argentinian authors Martin Camaño and Fabian Casas, reunites the director with Viggo Mortensen who starred in his 2014 film ‘Jauja’. The cast also features Chiara Mastroianni, Sadie Lapointe and Alaina Clifford. It had its World Premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
The first section of ‘Eureka’ is a richly-textured old-style Western, shot in monochrome; from there the film glides into the modern US in full colour, with Alaina Clifford as a disgruntled cop on a Native American reservation… and then time travels back to a 1970s Brazilian jungle.
‘Eureka’ will be released in select cinemas on 16th February 2024.
