A cowboy arrives in a town in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, and a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in the Amazon jungle.
Cinematography
Stunning 35mm vistas across Patagonia and Amazon
Direction
Alonso's most ambitious, least accessible work yet
Director
Lisandro Alonso
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alonso shot the Amazon sequences first in 2018, then added the Montana and Dakotas footage years later—explaining the disjointed structure everyone complains about.
The 'disappeared native' subplot directly references Argentina's Dirty War, making this Alonso's most explicitly political film despite its abstract packaging.
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