00:00 An anthology of indigenous narratives, Eureka is a very challenging film to talk about,
00:04 let alone 60 seconds, but let's try it anyway.
00:06 The film begins as a black and white western pastiche featuring Viggo Mortensen,
00:10 it then moves on to a cop and her niece living on the Pine Ridge Reservation,
00:14 before finally a tribe in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s,
00:18 all linked by recurring ideas and actors across space, because time is a construct of man.
00:24 Although you might not feel quite the same way after watching two and a half hours of Eureka,
00:28 which is definitely slow cinema with a capital S that evokes the likes of something like Uncle
00:32 Boonmee who can recall his past lives, trying to have a poetic and meditative tone that invites
00:38 the audience to ruminate on its themes of displacement, cultural identity and violence.
00:42 For me it felt like three incomplete movies for the price of one, with the Pine Ridge Reservation
00:46 section being by far the most fully formed, and I wish that was just the movie, I could have easily
00:52 lost the other two sections. Unfortunately I felt Eureka more tested my patience than ultimately,
00:58 rewarded it.
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