“Eureka” seems somewhat deceitfully simple: a man called Murphy (Viggo Mortensen) searches for his abducted daughter with the help of the mysterious El Coronel (Chiara Mastroianni), even if he has to shoot everyone who stands in his way. A black and white, sleek vision of a western where the key lighting is mesmerizingly subdued, rounded square frame, boxed aspect ratio—did “slow cinema” veteran Lisandro Alonso really make a classical western today?

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