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| Director: | Amat Escalante | ||
| Cinematography: | Adrián Durazo | ||
| Editing: | Fernanda de la Peza | ||
| Language: | Spanish |
Lost in the Night (Spanish; Castilian: '''Perdidos en la noche'''|links=no) 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.
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]
The film is a Mexican-German-Dutch-Danish co-production by Bord Cadre Films, Cárcava Cine, Match Factory Productions, Pimienta Films, and Snowglobe Films.[2] Shooting locations included Guanajuato.
The film was presented in the 'Cannes Premiere' section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2023.[3] It also made it to the main slate of the 27th Lima Film Festival.[4]
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.[5]
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".[6]
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter deemed the class-inequality mystery thriller film to be "absorbing, but rarely more than that".[7]