Especial 2024

EUREKA

Lissandro Alonso | 2023 | 146'

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.

BIOGRAPHY

Lissandro Alonso

LISANDRO ALONSO (Buenos Aires, 1975) is one of the fundamental names in contemporary Argentinean cinema and one of the most prestigious filmmakers still active today. Owner of a highly personal style, he astonished at Cannes Film Festival with his first film La libertad (2001), followed by the masterful Los muertos (2004), Fantasma (2006), Liverpool (2008) and Jauja (2014), which marked a turning point in his career. Eureka (2023), premiered at Cannes Classics, is his latest film.

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Critical text

Dynamiting conventions of time and space, Eureka flows as a creative compendium of Lisandro Alonso's concerns and, at a time, as an overwhelming extension of his universe. Sublimely framed in black and white, set in the Old West in the frontier of the town, a man seeks for revenge... All of a sudden the film turns into colour and brings us to the nowadays Dakota, where a police officer and member of a native American community, sees his vulnerability in relation to the American establishment, still trapped in his own cruel capitalist ambition... Next minute we find ourselves in the '70s, in the Amazonia. In a new tempo, Eureka flows and astonishes with this unique experience combining hypnotic sensory introspection on human kind signed by colonialism, and the loss of identity. And yet, evoking the chance of its recovery through the traces that remain in the art of storytelling

Against the imposed codes of a reductionist logic, appealing to our muting abilities and to our idealistic essence... Almost a decade now since Alonso's last film: Jauja, and almost 25 years since his debut with Freedom. With Eureka he fascinates once again and takes the stand as one of the few contemporary creators capable of trascending the limits of cinema and, therefore, of the respresentation of existence in images and sounds, walikng us through trails we could have never imagined. JAVIER H. ESTRADA

Technical Sheet

Director: Lisandro Alonso

Sound: Catriel Vildosola Editing: Gonzalo del Val

Music: Domingo Cura Production

Design: Miguel ángel Rebollo Fernández-Paniagua y Marlene Rodríguez Serrano

Cinematography: Mauro Herce Mira y Timo Saminen Guion: Lisandro Alonso, Fabian Casas, Martín Camaño Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford, Sadie Lapointe, Villbjørk Malling, Adanilo, Marcio Marante, Luisa Cruz y Rafi Pitts