CCC Auteurs Watchlist : Lisandro ALONSO

7 years without a new film by Lisandro ALONSO, since Jauja (released in 2014)... which was one of the rare period films in Contemplative Cinema. And there was another hiatus between the previous film : Liverpool (2008) and Jauja. They were released 6 years apart. 

We got an inkling about his new film : Eureka, at the 2020 Locarno Film Festival with this official statement from the selection comittee : 

Lisandro Alonso was directing outside his native Argentina for the first time, with an ensemble of cast and crew from countries ranging from Finland to Spain, when Covid-19 hit the shooting of his western in Portugal. Exploring the connections between the different cultures inhabiting a land through time is at the heart of Eureka.

Here is the page of the film Eureka on the festival website, in case you want to read the synopsis before the film comes out..