Event

Jauja

Apr 17 - Apr 23

(Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/United States/Netherlands/France/Mexico, 2014, DCP, 108 min)

Friday, Apr 17 at 08:00PM
Saturday, Apr 18 at 05:00PM
Sunday, Apr 19 at 04:00PM
Sunday, Apr 19 at 07:00PM
Monday, Apr 20 at 01:00PM
Monday, Apr 20 at 03:00PM
Tuesday, Apr 21 at 08:00PM
Wednesday, Apr 22 at 08:00PM
Thursday, Apr 23 at 08:00PM

Lisandro Alonso's Jauja (pronounced HOW-ha) marks multiple firsts in the Argentinian director's career: working with another writer on the script, creating a period piece (late 19th-century Patagonia), casting a veritable star (and producer), Viggo Mortensen, and including more dialogue than all of his other films combined (though that's not saying much, literally!).

Jauja is unmistakably Alonso, with its focus on presence and duration in a solitary, dream-like journey through haunting landscapes. Mortensen stars as Captain Gunnar Dinesen, a Dane who travels with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the Argentine army during the Conquest of the Desert (the systematic annihilation of indigenous people in Patagonia). When the girl disappears into the night with her soldier sweetheart, Dinesen sets off into enemy territory to find them. The title evokes a beguiling mythic city perpetually sought by adventurers.