EUREKA U.S. Trailer: Viggo Mortensen Stars in Lisandro Alonso’s Time and Genre-Bending New Feature

Ten years after collaborating on the expressionist western Juaja, star Viggo Mortensen and director Lisandro Alonso reteam for an even more ambitious tale that explores the depths of time, civilization, and cinema. Eureka is not an easy film to summarize. It takes place throughout different times in history in the lives of Indigenous communities. Along with Mortensen, the film also stars Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford, Sadie LaPointe, and Viilbjørk Malling Agger. It premiered at last year’s Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI award in the Un Certain Regard section, before screening at the New York Film Festival that same year. Ahead of its September 20 theatrical release, the U.S. trailer has arrived courtesy of Film Movement.

Here’s the official synopsis:

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).

Check out the trailer and poster below.

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