Jauja (2014)
Country: DK/ARG/MEX/FR/GER/NL
Technical: col/1.33:1 109m
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Synopsis:
A Danish captain in Patagonia wanders into the wilderness in search of his daughter, gets lost, and traverses the boundaries of time and space.
Review:
Like Jodorowsky's El Topo, this is the negation of narrative cinema, which need not in itself be a bad thing. The images and locations, shot in Academy complete with rounded corners, are undeniably beautiful, which is just as well as you get plenty of chance to contemplate them: every scene is essentially a master shot, with no inserts, cut-ins or changes of perspective. This makes for extremely slow cinema, but when the events make no kind of sense one's patience begins to grow thin. A wolf hound, a wooden toy soldier, and a search for a mythical El Dorado referenced in an opening title, may all hold the secret to why the last shot is of Patagonian sea lions. Or they may not.
Country: DK/ARG/MEX/FR/GER/NL
Technical: col/1.33:1 109m
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Synopsis:
A Danish captain in Patagonia wanders into the wilderness in search of his daughter, gets lost, and traverses the boundaries of time and space.
Review:
Like Jodorowsky's El Topo, this is the negation of narrative cinema, which need not in itself be a bad thing. The images and locations, shot in Academy complete with rounded corners, are undeniably beautiful, which is just as well as you get plenty of chance to contemplate them: every scene is essentially a master shot, with no inserts, cut-ins or changes of perspective. This makes for extremely slow cinema, but when the events make no kind of sense one's patience begins to grow thin. A wolf hound, a wooden toy soldier, and a search for a mythical El Dorado referenced in an opening title, may all hold the secret to why the last shot is of Patagonian sea lions. Or they may not.
Country: DK/ARG/MEX/FR/GER/NL
Technical: col/1.33:1 109m
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Synopsis:
A Danish captain in Patagonia wanders into the wilderness in search of his daughter, gets lost, and traverses the boundaries of time and space.
Review:
Like Jodorowsky's El Topo, this is the negation of narrative cinema, which need not in itself be a bad thing. The images and locations, shot in Academy complete with rounded corners, are undeniably beautiful, which is just as well as you get plenty of chance to contemplate them: every scene is essentially a master shot, with no inserts, cut-ins or changes of perspective. This makes for extremely slow cinema, but when the events make no kind of sense one's patience begins to grow thin. A wolf hound, a wooden toy soldier, and a search for a mythical El Dorado referenced in an opening title, may all hold the secret to why the last shot is of Patagonian sea lions. Or they may not.