The film's first two-thirds are strange enough, and utterly haunting, as cinematographer Timo Salminen shoots the desolate vistas in a 4:3 ratio ...
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Jauja is a rapturously bizarre movie that resists knowledge. That's its secret, intoxicating power; the less you understand, the more mesmerized ...
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The movie opens with a static image of two characters sitting on a rock for several minutes, and continues that way even when the story ...
At its core, this is a meditative film (with hints of issues like colonialism & the ownership of land) that borders on a feature length ...
This film is a reimagining of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' where the white rabbit leads the way to a dread wasteland of tinpot ...
In Lisandro Alonso's beautifully shot, minimalist Jauja, a desert in 19th century Patagonia sparks an enigmatic quest into the meaning of ...
A 19th-century period piece, Jauja might be described as a quasi-Herzogian experience into the rocky terrain of the Argentinean desert, but ...
In Lisandro Alonso's film, a Danish engineer travels to the Argentine frontier with his daughter, then sets off in search of her after she ...
The whole affair has a sort of dreamlike feel. This movie is far less about characters and story and meaning than it is about tone and mood and aesthetics. If ...
Jauja is a film that (in David Lynch's useful expression) really 'works the frame' – and what a captivatingly rare 1.33:1 ratio that frame is, ...