Moviegoing dreamers, there is hope for us still in this timeless, tender romance from living legend Aki Kaurismäki. Imbued with the filmmaker’s idiosyncratic playfulness and deadpan humor, this bittersweet comedy charmed even the most dour of critics and, delightfully, won the Jury Prize at Cannes.
Remarkably bold filmmaking from Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso, the enigmatic Jauja is a postcolonial political allegory rendered in witty shots dazzlingly colored and composed. A film hypnotic and transfixing, minimalist and expressionistic. Starring Viggo Mortensen.
A chimeric wonder from director Lisandro Alonso, Eureka slips the boundaries of space and time. Beginning as a Viggo Mortensen-led western before morphing into something else entirely, this metaphysical meditation on the exploitation of Indigenous histories is mesmerising, transcendental cinema.
