Film Movement revealed the official trailer for Eureka, the drama film starring three times Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen, that explores the experience of indigenous people and the impact of colonialism in the western world.
Eureka premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival under the Cannes Premiere section. It has since been screened at other festivals, including the 28th Busan International Film Festival, 2023 New York Film Festival, 67th San Francisco International Film Festival, and the 27th Lima Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.
Also starring in the film are Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford, Sadie Lapointe, Viilbjørk Malling, Luísa Cruz, Rafi Pitts, Santiago Fumagalli, Natalia Ruiz, Adanilo Costa, and José María Yazpik.
Release Date
Directed by Lisandro Alonso, ‘Eureka’ opens in select US theaters on September 20, 2024.
Synopsis
Traversing time, space and genre, Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso 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.
“I want to establish connections between the passage of time and the different cultures that have inhabited this land since the very beginning, before colonization. Some have lost connection with their direct descendants in trying to understand their way of being in the world, others share a direct link. – I realize that it’s a film nobody has yet made. It wouldn’t be superfluous to show – and get carried away by – the beauty and darkness of the America, the people who inhabit it, and the people who damage it.” said director Lisandro Alonso on his inspirations of the film.
Reviews
Peter Bradshaw in a Guardian review gave the film a 4/5 score, writing, “There is certainly no obvious “eureka” moment of discovery or understanding. But 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.”
Leonardo Goi in a The Film Stage review also praised the film, writing, “Old tropes and motifs notwithstanding, 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.”
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for ‘Eureka’.
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