Lost in the Night
A thriller done without the genre defaults, Lost in the Night (Perdidos en la Noche) is a film by Amat Escalante, a director who likes it bright and wide, slow and considered – more or less the opposite of the usual dark, claustrophobic, rapid and kneejerk. Does it work? No, but it’s a near miss rather than a catastrophic fail, an ambitious film pushing the genre in an unusual direction, and at its centre a loner’s performance by Juan Daniel García Treviño, playing a Mexican teenager trying to find out what happened to his political activist mother three years earlier. His investigation takes him to the home of the Aldama family, a strange … Read more