FILM

“After the completion of his ‘Lonely Men Trilogy’, people started to say that Alonso should do something different. Jauja answers that request: it’s a film with an international star, features characters who speak in full sentences, and boasts a script (more or less) that Alonso worked on with the well-known Argentine poet and novelist Fabián Casas. A shift in this direction, however, could already be spotted in Carta para Serra, a short commissioned work that the director made for the CCCB in Barcelona in response to a ‘letter’ from Albert Serra, which ends with Casas appearing onscreen to read a text announcing that words have started to count in Alonso’s films.” (Quintín)

Spanish spoken, French subtitles