Eureka

Søndag 13. oktober
Det blir samtale med den briljante filmfotografen Timo Salminen, som blant annet er kjent som Aki Kaurismäkis faste fotograf og samarbeidspartner.

Filmen åpner i en nedstøvet, arketypisk westernby, med en like arketypisk cowboy (Viggo Mortensen) på et enda mer arketypisk hevntokt. Men dette er "bare" en film innenfor filmen, som hopper i tid og transporterer seerne til dagens South Dakota og Pine Ridge-reservatet, hvor den innfødte politibetjenten Aliana blir konfrontert med konsekvensene av knugende fattigdom, vold og offentlig fyll.

Etter hvert som dette tredelte historieforløpet utfolder seg, provoserer hvert tidsmessige og romlige skifte frem metafysiske spørsmål om kolonial innflytelse på urfolk og de stadig tilstedeværende spenningene mellom urfolkskulturer og den vestlige verden

"Pure arthouse bliss. It’s stunning." — David Fear, Rolling Stone‍

"Bristles with agile ideas and inventive image-making... its elasticity of form and narrative perhaps alluding to a history forever repeating and doubling back onto itself."

Guy Lodge, Variety

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An enigmatically arresting film about the experiences of Indigenous communities across the Americas by Cannes favourite Lisandro Alonso.

13. October
After the screening, cinematographer Timo Salminen, celebrated for his long-standing collaboration with Aki Kaurismäki, will join in conversation.

Featuring three-time Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Eureka is a graceful refraction of history and place, marking it as Alonso’s 'most expansive and ambitious film to date.'

Opening in a dusty archetypical western town, with an archetypical cowboy (Viggo Mortensen) on an archetypical revenge mission. But wait: this is 'just' a film within the film, which then transports the viewer to South Dakota’s contemporary Pine Ridge Reservation, where native police officer Aliana is confronted by the consequences—violence, public drunkenness—of grinding poverty.

As the triptych unfolds, each temporal and spatial shift provokes metaphysical questions about the colonial influence on native peoples and the ever-present tensions between indigeneity and the Western world.