Eureka (1983)

Highly Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Writers: Paul Mayersberg, Marshall Houts

Cinematographer: Alex Thomson

Composer: Stanley Myers

Cast: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Mickey Rourke, Ed Lauter, Joe Pesci, Norman Beaton

Conventional wisdom would have it that, after a run of five masterpieces, this dreamlike film – a portrait of a rich former gold prospector, now living on a tropical island with his wife and daughter, feuding with his son-in-law, and attempting to fend off the unwanted attentions of the mob – was the beginning of Roeg’s downfall; but I would have to say, filled as it is with unsettling visual delights, excellent performances, and thought provoking human insight, that it is just about their equal. Iain.Stott