an Andrei Tarkovsky remake of The Searchers? Seen through a slide projector? Starring Viggo Mortensen AS Andrei Tarkovsky?enigmatic and already haunting.
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
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an Andrei Tarkovsky remake of The Searchers? Seen through a slide projector? Starring Viggo Mortensen AS Andrei Tarkovsky?enigmatic and already haunting.
The starting point might be read as an allegory about colonialism but what makes Jauja such a beautiful film is how Alonso turns Argentina into pure film myth. This really is sett not in 19th century Argentina but in the land of cinema possibilities, every one of its movements adding more elements and new possible paths. I thought a lot about the early João Cesar Monteiro of Veredas and Silvestre who does some similar things to medieval Portugal. It is an act of profound generosity towards one’s own country. Just turn its landscape, its history into something that can only truly exist as cinema.
jauja is often but not always about a man trying to walk through a landscape without falling, although he ends up falling often. jauja is a film for people who love horses and dogs. the horizon in jauja rarely dominates, it is a landscape film where the screen is most often dominated by tall grass, rocks, dirt, still water, rocks. in one of the central moments the night sky dominates the frame, but in that shot the central figure is lying on the ground. in several shots, most importantly those of night or sunset, the range of color in jauja brought to mind she wore a yellow ribbon, a film which this hardly resembles. jauja is a lisandro alonso film with an axial cut to a close-up of a man drawing a sword. an image that is ruthlessly undercut throughout the remainder of the film, and, i suppose, the parts of the film preceding that image. the lone gunfight in jauja, if you can call it that, reminded me of fregonese, which is to say that alonso is already a master at this, but a strange one. jauja has one of the best scores of any film i have seen in recent years, but this is mostly apparent in scenes without music (there are only two). a lot of people walked out of this screening, but i don't think they were there to see jauja at all, really.
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Jauja was directed by Lisandro Alonso in 2014.
Jauja was released in Ireland on March 20, 2015. Tickets on Mood.
