Jauja - Recensies

Working with Timo Salminen, a Finnish cinematographer best known for his hyperrealist lighting, Alonso crafts saturated, fine-grain images of the Patagonian wilderness.

The performances mesh beautifully with the filmmaking, which is more keenly attuned to fluctuations in the natural world that all but a handful of modern motion pictures.

Challengingly spellbinding.

Jauja is filmed so sparely, with such basic compositions, and with period costumes so artificial-looking against the timeless scrub, that often it looks like nothing so much as a silent film.

...Mortensens præstation er glimrende og billedsiden [er] usædvanligt smukt skudt af Kaurismäkis hoffotograf Timo Salminen...

...a quietly magical piece of cinema, a mind-bender of the subtlest kind.

Viggo Mortensen teams up with Argentinian visionary Lisandro Alonso to deliver one of the most singularly compelling films of the year.

...en skildring af forholdet mellem drømme og myter og den virkelighed, de er forankret i.