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‘Lost in the Night’ Review: Mexican Director Amat Escalante Delivers a Beguiling Class-Divide Mystery
A young man searches for answers about his mother’s disappearance in Amat Escalante's lusciously photographed, tonally intricate 'Lost in the Night.'
Seven years after his mesmerizing sci-fi drama on extraterrestrial sex, “The Untamed,” genre-defying Mexican auteur Amat Escalante switches gears once again to try his hand at a sharp-edged, quasi-detective story with “ Lost in the Night.” His approach expectedly deviates from a straightforward whodunit. In just a handful of years since his breakout role in Fernando Frías de la Parra’s “I’m No Longer Here,” Juan Daniel García Treviño has become a familiar face in Mexican cinema, usually playing a member of a criminal organization. Here, Escalante pushes against such typecasting and places him on the righteous side of the fence, as Emiliano, a regret-ridden son of an activist mother who was abducted — and likely murdered — by the corrupt local police as retribution for opposing a Canadian mine in their rural town.
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