The Loneliest Planet

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  • Opened October 26, 2012 
  • 1 hr 53 min
  • NR

  • The film plays off the relationship between young travelers, Alex (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg), and the places they travel to, between guide and guided. But at heart, it is a love story -- a tale about betrayal, both accidental and deliberate, about masculinity, failure and the ambiguities of forgiveness. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze
  • Director: Julia Loktev
  • Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller

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Slow-liest Planet. (Not like the Preview)

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Yes, the scenery was beautiful. But that is the only positive that I could pull out of this experience. The major problem for me was that the preview sets the viewer up for something different. My...

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by mulliganJen

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. I felt it was worse than Chinese water torture. It is basically two people, a man and woman with a guide hiking. Every scene is 5 minutes of watching them...

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Beautifully shot, but not much else...

by jakeyoung99

I was on the verge of giving this on a so-so, but eventually decided against it. As the title suggests, this film boasts beautiful and well thought out shots that are both unique and moral. However ,...

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

One of the year's most original and emotionally profound movies masquerades as the tiny story of a young couple who take a backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains the summer before their wedding. Read full review

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Movieline
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One of the finest of the year, The Loneliest Planet is based on a short story by Tom Bissell that's itself inspired by a famous Hemingway work, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

The movie captures a kind of tragedy of self. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

Blink your eyes and you've lost track of them, but one of the interesting things about the experience is that you don't want to lose track; though the film moves as slowly as its hikers, it demands, and deserves, to be watched closely. (The cinematographer was Inti Briones.) Read full review

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Hani Furstenberg and Gael Garcia Bernal in "The Loneliest Planet."