Eureka is a 2023 drama film co-written and directed by Lisandro Alonso, starring Viggo Mortensen, José María Yazpik and Chiara Mastroianni. The film is narrated by Eureka, a woman who became a migratory bird to create a connection between the years 1870 and 2019 and the United States, Mexico, and the Amazon rainforest.[2]
Eureka is a bird that flies across different geographies of the American continent; in its flights, it also travels through time. The film is narrated in three distinct sections. It examines the indigenous peoples of the Americas and how they have inhabited their specific environments across the centuries.
The film's first part, entitled 'Western', takes place in a lawless township on the US-Mexico border in 1870, with Viggo Mortensen playing the role of a father, Murphy, searching for his kidnapped daughter.[3]
In November 2021, production for Lisandro Alonso's sixth feature film started.[citation needed]Eureka began shooting in Almería, Spain.[citation needed] France's Luxbox was the lead producer, with Germany's Komplizen Film and Portugal's Rosa Filmes serving as their fellow European co-producers.[citation needed] 4L and Pina Films produced for Argentina and Mexico, respectively, with Luxbox also controlling international sales.[citation needed]
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes website, the film has an approval rating of 82% based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7 out of 10.[22] On the AlloCiné, which lists 18 press reviews, the film obtained an average rating of 3.8/5.[23]
David Katz, reviewing for Cineuropa praised the film, writing "Eureka is a heady, thought-provoking, and often beautiful experience—artistic minimalism at its most elasticated and textured."[24] Peter Bradshaw, reviewing for The Guardian said that watching scenes of nature on screen was "an enriching experience". Bradshaw rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and wrote, "It is entirely fascinating, though undoubtedly it requires the audience to recalibrate their own consumption-tempo and attention span stamina."[25]
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