Lost & Found (2022 film)

Lost & Found
Theatrical release poster
SpanishObjetos
Directed byJorge Dorado
Screenplay byNatxo López
Starring
CinematographyDavid Acereto
Music byEric Claus Kuschevatzky
Production
companies
  • Star Distribution
  • Tandem
  • Films
  • Setembro Cine
  • Tormenta Films
  • La Maleta Perdida AIE
  • Pampa Films
  • In Post We Trust
  • Rexin Film
Distributed byFilmax (Spain)
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
(Latin America)
Release dates
  • 17 September 2022 (2022-09-17) (Santander)
  • 30 September 2022 (2022-09-30) (Spain)
  • 18 May 2023 (2023-05-18) (Argentina)
Running time
107 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Spain
  • Argentina
  • Germany
LanguageSpanish
Box office$539,479[2]

Lost & Found (Spanish: Objetos, lit. 'Objects') is a 2022 thriller film directed by Jorge Dorado from a screenplay by Natxo López which stars Álvaro Morte, China Suárez, and Verónica Echegui. It is a Spanish-Argentine-German co-production.

Plot

The plot follows surly lost & found worker Mario who, upon handling a lost suitcase with human remains inside, gets involved in a criminal investigation pertaining human trafficking and luxury prostitution.[3][4]

Cast

Production

Lost & Found is a Spain-Argentina-Germany co-production,[9][1] by Tandem Films alongside Setembro Cine, Tormenta Films, La Maleta Perdida AIE, Pampa Films, In Post We Trust and Rexin Film.[10] It also had the participation of RTVE, Prime Video, ZDF, and Telemadrid; and funding from ICAA, INCAA, the Madrid regional administration, Ibermedia, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, ICO, and Crea SGR.[10] It was shot in between Madrid and the province of Jujuy.[10]

Release

Filmax nabbed international sales rights for the film.[9] The film was selected for a 17 September 2022 pre-screening as the closing film of the 6th Santander Film Festival.[11] Distributed by Filmax,[4] it was theatrically released in Spain on 30 September 2022.[2][12] It was release theatrically in Argentina on 18 May 2023.[13]

Reception

Toni Vall of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that, featuring an interesting detective premise about human trafficking, it is "effective almost all the time, extraordinarily filmed", yet also "suffers at times from a certain precipitation" and a lack of plausibility.[4]

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas rated the film 57 out of 100 points ("so-so") highlighting the beginning, the performance by Echegui and the cameo by Eguileor as the best things about the film, which stars to fall apart upon the exploration of the luxury prostitution network due to "its lack of congruence".[8]

Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, considering that it features one of those genre scripts in which there is "hardly anything authentic left to scratch" behind its "carcass of stereotypes, [common] themes and commonplaces".[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Objects - FCS - Festival de Cine de Santander". festivalcinesantander.com (in Spanish). 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Lost & Found (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  3. ^ Laso, David S. (29 September 2022). "Álvaro Morte presenta su nueva película, 'Objetos': "El protagonista es un personaje humano que toma opciones torpes y erróneas"". Cadena Ser (in Spanish).
  4. ^ a b c Vall, Toni (29 September 2022). "Crítica de 'Objetos'". Cinemanía (in Spanish) – via 20minutos.es.
  5. ^ a b c García, Concha (29 September 2022). "Verónica Echegui: "La cosificación entre humanos es terrorífica, pero real"". La Razón (in Spanish).
  6. ^ a b c d Lombardo, Manuel J. (1 October 2022). "Un thriller de papel". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Grupo Joly.
  7. ^ "Las repercusiones de la nota de Canal 7 a la China Suárez en medios nacionales". Somos Jujuy (in Spanish). 17 November 2021.
  8. ^ a b Hernández Luján, Raquel (30 September 2022). "Crítica de Objetos, la primera película de Álvaro Morte como protagonista". HobbyConsolas (in Spanish).
  9. ^ a b De Pablos, Emiliano (8 February 2022). "Starring 'Money Heist's' Álvaro Morte, Jorge Dorado's Thriller 'Lost & Found' Swooped on by Filmax (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  10. ^ a b c "RTVE.es estrena el tráiler de 'Objetos', un inquietante thriller con Álvaro Morte, China Suárez y Verónica Echegui". RTVE (in Spanish). 18 July 2022.
  11. ^ "El Festival de Cine de Santander se clausura hoy con la entrega de premios de Óperas Primas". Cantabria Liberal (in Spanish). 17 September 2022.
  12. ^ "Objetos (2022)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  13. ^ Courau, Guillermo (18 May 2023). "La inconsistente Objetos desperdicia un promisorio inicio al estilo La dimensión desconocida". La Nación.