Lost in the Night

Lost in the Night intertwines love, revenge and conflict in an intense drama thriller set in a small town in Mexico. The latest film from star director Amat Escalante, is an unforgettable experience.

A planned mining operation creates divisions in a local community in Mexico. Along with other mining protesters, activist Paloma disappears one night. She leaves behind her son Emiliano, who, years later, still doesn't know what happened to his mother. A tip from a dying policeman who wants to ease his conscience leads him to a villa belonging to the wealthy and dysfunctional Aldama family. Emiliano decides to infiltrate the family and is hired as a janitor by the father, the eccentric artist Rigo. Driven by a growing desire for revenge, he begins to search for clues that may provide answers about his mother's disappearance, in a story that quickly takes unforeseen turns.

The fantastic performances, especially from lead actor Juan Daniel García Treviño, give the story an ever-present nerve. Lost in the Night premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this spring and is Amat Escalante's fifth feature film.

«The fact that there is no through line to follow makes Lost in the Night effective as both a thriller and a psychological drama, without relying on depictions of violence to convey exactly how forceful the command of one’s inner trauma is. Within the family dynamics of Escalante’s cinema, hardly anyone is left unscathed».
– Cineuropa –

Anne Cruys

Director

Amat Escalante (b. 1979) is a film director, producer and screenwriter from Guanajuato, Mexico. He started working in film at the age of 15 and has a successful career to show for it. For Heli (2013), he won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, and for The Untamed (2016) he received the Silver Lion in Venice.

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