2023 · drama · western · slow cinema
Eureka
Directed by Lisandro Alonso2h 27m2023
A cowboy arrives in a town in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, and a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in the Amazon jungle.
Our read: Eureka (2023) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal drama · western · slow cinema entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / western, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- surreal
- signature
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