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Lisandro Alonso, a master of Argentinian cinema who loves to experiment, surprises us with a fantastical and meditative odyssey that's part western, part postcolonialist fable.
Alaina is tired of the dreary tasks that come with her job as a police officer on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and decides to stop answering her radio. Her niece spends a long night waiting for her to no avail, then decides that she, too, wants to disappear. A magic potion made by her grandfather will allow her to travel through space and time. EUREKA begins as a western in black and white, with Viggo Mortensen in the role of a cowboy, and turns into a cinematic flight to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, from the United States to Mexico to the Amazon jungle.
Meet the director
Lisandro Alonso
Lisandro Alonso, born in 1975, studied directing at the Universidad del Cine in his hometown of Buenos Aires. With Catriel Vildosola, he made his first short film, DOS EN LA VEREDA, in 1995. To date, Alonso has made six feature-length films, all of which have premiered at Cannes: LA LIBERTAD premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in 2001; LOS MUERTOS (2004), FANTASMA (2006) and LIVERPOOL in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. JAUJA (2014) premiered again in the Un Certain Regard section and received the FIPRESCI Prize. EUREKA had its world premiere at a special screening at Cannes in 2023.