Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos) directs Viggo Mortensen in this poetic, metaphysical western that further enhances Alonso’s reputation as a unique, visionary director.
Mortensen (who co-produced and co-composed the film’s score) plays Captain Dinesen, a Danish soldier who has been assigned to Argentina’s Patagonia region in 1882.
The army have been trying to rid the jungle region of its indigenous inhabitants, and Dinesen arrives with his daughter, Ingeborg, charged with a surveying project of the soon to be ‘civilised’ land.
What follows is a journey through a vast and unforgiving land, where Dinesen has to confront demons of an existential nature as he travels further and further from home.
Shot on 35mm in academy ratio, Jauja is a staggeringly beautiful film which will delight lovers of meditative cinema.