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Lost Embrace (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 46

Fresh: 39

Rotten:7

Average Rating: 6.7/10

Consensus: A low-key but charming tale that will put a smile on your face.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jan 28, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: Lost Embrace stars Daniel Hendler (Winner 2004 Berlin Film Festival/Best Actor) as Ariel, a recent college dropout with hopes of escaping a career behind the counter of his mother's lingerie store... Lost Embrace stars Daniel Hendler (Winner 2004 Berlin Film Festival/Best Actor) as Ariel, a recent college dropout with hopes of escaping a career behind the counter of his mother's lingerie store in a Buenos Aires shopping mall. The job does come with its perks, as tantalizing as helping beautiful women slip in and out of lingerie can be, but the tales of the shopkeepers have grown stale; dressing-room trysts with Rita can't go on forever; and Estela, his now pregnant exgirlfriend, no longer needs him. It could grow into a comfortable routine, but with a passport to world travel and new adventures at his fingertips, Ariel seeks a life of greater aspirations. And Ariel can almost taste it. With a little “help” from Roman Polanski, Copernicus and John Paul I, his Polish passport will arrive soon enough, and the eccentric spirit of the mall and its shopkeepers will fade into memory. Will he miss the Saliganis, a large Italian family that runs an electronics store and beauty salon — at the top of their lungs, or the fabric-selling Levin Brothers (really cousins)? He barely knows the newly wedded Kims, but their feng-shui shop should fit in nicely. As for Osvaldo, he’s about to lose his stationery store, though not before Ariel learns a long-held secret from his past. Ariel’s certain to miss his best friend, Mitelman and his stunning Lithuanian secretary, and he can’t forget sexy Rita, the vixen of the Internet café who likes to model lingerie. Of course, long after Ariel departs, Joseph, his older brother, will still be settling scores from an office above the mall, and their mother, Sonia, will continue to run the lingerie shop. But before Ariel’s dream of a new life in Europe can begin, he will first have to shake a head-spinning dose of reality: his long-lost father is about to return. Ariel's father, Elias, left Argentina to fight in the Yom Kippur War but never returned to his family. Growing up, Ariel had heard stories about his father, both at home and from older shopkeepers at the mall, but the mystery of why Elias left the family shortly after Ariel was born, why he never returned, and why this seems to have left Ariel's mother and brother indifferent, has always bothered him. If the truth is to emerge, Ariel must stop running from Elias, allow his father to share his story, which includes old secrets about the mall and its shopkeepers, and, ultimately, accept a long-overdue embrace that has been lost to him for so long. A story of a first, bittersweet encounter between a father and his young adult son, Lost Embrace (Argentina's 2004 Academy Award entry/Best Foreign Film) conjures up an ensemble of engaging characters who pursue their humble dreams with gentle humor, irresistible passion and an infectious generosity of spirit. -- © New Yorker Films [More]

Starring: Daniel Hendler, Sergio Boris, Jorge D'Elia, Melina Petriella

Starring: Daniel Hendler, Sergio Boris, Jorge D'Elia, Melina Petriella, Atilio Pozzobon, Diego Korol, Adriana Alzenberg

Director: Daniel Burman

Director: Daniel Burman
Screenwriter: Marcelo Birmajer, Daniel Burman
Producer: Diego Dubcovsky
Composer: Cesar Lerner
Studio: New Yorker Films

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Anna Smith
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Affectionate, funny and ultimately moving, Burman's fourth feature embraces humanity in the Argentinean marketplace.

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06/15/07
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

Does what it sets out to do--celebrate the good nature of those people who, despite life's difficulties, remain true to their loved ones, their friends, and themselves.

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The film's moments of whimsy and its wry comic insights into one man's Prufrockian drifting and yearning through life add up to a charming oddity.

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film that gives ultimate impression of missed opportunity

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08/20/05
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As visually captivating as it is emotionally engaging.

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08/12/05
Susan Walker
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The film's sophistication -- and it is an immensely sophisticated film -- lies in its refusal to tuck in too tightly its shirttails.

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Plays out in a low-key but charming fashion.

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06/03/05
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This is an amusing movie with a warm fuzzy ending that makes you feel like you just been hugged.

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Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
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A small film whose structural weaknesses are largely redeemed by its big heart.

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06/01/05
Frank Swietek
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Burman explored this world before in 2000's Waiting for the Messiah, but in Lost Embrace, his maturity results in a much tighter and engaging film.

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05/13/05
Marta Barber
Miami Herald

Hendler's center-stage performance can be considered refreshingly natural or annoyingly brooding, depending on your tolerance for cynical self-analysis played for comedy.

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