![]() Murphy is on a revenge mission of some description, though few specifics emerge in his cryptic face-to-face with apparent town leader El Coronel (Chiara Mastroianni).Įven working in a mode of B-movie pastiche - and a devoted one, with scuffed monochrome lensing in a boxy frame curbed by the distinctive rounded corners that marked “Jauja’s” images - Alonso’s storytelling remains defiantly vague. On an unidentified, boulder-strewn coastline, a Native American elder offers a ritual chant, before the camera drifts - seemingly far inland - to a generic desert wasteland where squinting gunman Murphy (Mortensen) hitches a wagon ride with a surly nun to a lawless frontier town, where slain bodies line the streets and the living boozily await a similar fate. ![]() That decision may be indicative of the challenges posed by the 146-minute film even to discerning arthouse audiences, but “Eureka” - never an abrasive watch, even at its most elusive, rich as it is in visual and ambient pleasures - should still easily find a home with experimentally-inclined distributors.įor its first 20-odd minutes, however, “Eureka” promises a very different film altogether: a larkish, even hokey sendup of “Jauja’s” neo-western undertones, made overt and gleefully high-kitsch. ![]() Eagerly awaited by Alonso’s patient faithful, “Eureka” was widely expected to mark the director’s debut in Competition at Cannes, only to bow instead in the festival’s auteur-heavy but non-competitive Cannes Premiere section. ![]()
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