Lisandro Alonso‘s first film in almost 10 years is also his second film starring Viggo Mortensen. “Eureka,” a time-spanning meditation on Indigenous communities, reunites the Argentine filmmaker with the star of his 2014 expressionist myth “Jauja.” And like that elliptical anti-Western about a Danish father and daughter on a colonial journey in Argentina, “Eureka” is another movie best pitched for the patient or for those attuned to, in the words of Variety’s Guy Lodge, “ambient pleasures.” IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for “Eureka” below ahead of its release from Film Movement in theaters this September. Watch below.
Here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of Film Movement: “Traversing 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 Mortensen, ‘Eureka’ is a graceful refraction of history and place, marking it Alonso’s ‘most expansive and ambitious film to date’ (Screen Anarchy).”
“Eureka” played the Busan, Cannes, Munich, New York, Rome, and San Francisco International Film Festivals dating back to 2023, among others. “Jauja” won the FIPRESCI award in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
“There is a sort of sensory perception, a feeling that through drifting downstream along the river course of this film and gazing at the foliage on either bank, some progress of the soul is being achieved. It is an enriching experience,” The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw wrote of “Eureka.”
Along with Mortensen, the cast of “Eureka” includes Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford, Sadie LaPointe, and Viilbjørk Malling Agger.
Watch the exclusive trailer for “Eureka” below.
“Eureka” opens in theaters from Film Movement on September 20.
