Insights - Young Critics' Circle
Return to Forever: Eureka by Lisandro Alonso
A text by Victor Morozov: There is nothing idyllic in Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka. Not even the landscape which, in his previous films (Liverpool, 2008; Jauja, 2016), could preserve precarious glimpses of silent majesty. In cinema, slowing down can become dangerous. We might call that danger "mannerism". When you focus on something for too long just for the sake of hollow duration, it feels like you're missing out on something else happening off-screen.