Lost in the Night
2023 film
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Lost in the Night (Spanish: Perdidos en la noche) is a 2023 mystery thriller film directed by Amat Escalante from a screenplay he co-wrote with Martín Escalante which stars Juan Daniel García alongside Ester Expósito, Bárbara Mori, and Fernando Bonilla. It is a Mexican-German-Dutch-Danish international co-production.
- Amat Escalante
- Martín Escalante
- Nicolás Celis
- Fernanda de la Peza
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| Spanish | Perdidos en la noche |
| Directed by | Amat Escalante |
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| Cinematography | Adrián Durazo |
| Edited by | Fernanda de la Peza |
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| Language | Spanish |
Plot
The plot follows a boy of humble origins (Emiliano) who enters to work for the well-off Aldama family to find out whether his missing mother's corpse is in the family's property.[1]
Cast
- Juan Daniel García Treviño as Emiliano[2]
- Fernando Bonilla as Rigo[2]
- Bárbara Mori as Carmen[2]
- Ester Expósito as Mónica[2]
- Vicky Araico as Paloma[2]
- Mafer Osio as Jazmín[2]
Production
The film is a Mexican-German-Dutch-Danish co-production by Bord Cadre Films, Cárcava Cine, Match Factory Productions, Pimienta Films, and Snowglobe Films.[3] Shooting locations included Guanajuato.[2]
Release
The film was presented in the 'Cannes Premiere' section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2023.[4] It also made it to the main slate of the 27th Lima Film Festival.[5]
Reception
According to the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Lost in the Night has a 61% approval rating based on 18 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 5.9/10.[6]
Lee Marshall of ScreenDaily deemed the film to be "at its heart, a fairly conventional crime movie", underscoring that "beneath its edgy surface [the film] is basically a boy detective yarn".[7]
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter deemed the class-inequality mystery thriller film to be "absorbing, but rarely more than that".[2]