
An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.... (Full plot summary below)
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An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.
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| MovielineAlison WillmoreOne 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." |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawIt's alive; it requires active participation and curiosity; and it speaks eloquently to the best possibilities of film as a medium for conversation and reflection. |
| CinemalogueTodd JorgensonLoktev's persistent use of long takes with little dialogue renders it a repetitive exercise that's more pretentious than profound. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceNothing hurts quite as much as self-doubt, and The Loneliest Planet is carpeted in it. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA slow-moving, minimalist film with gorgeous photography which features a sudden event, a coup de theatre, that could end a romantic relationship |
| Looking CloserJeffrey OverstreetI wouldn't say that I find the movie satisfying, but I do find it powerfully haunting. That's a compliment. To be haunted by art is a better thing than to be satisfied by it. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThis is one of those films where very little happens very slowly, but there are a couple of dramatic scenes which change the complexion of the film. |
| Boston HeraldJames VernierePresumably taking its title from BBC Worldwide's "Lonely Planet" travel books, |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThe movie captures a kind of tragedy of self. |
| Boston PhoenixAnn LewinsonLoktev and cinematographer Inti Briones have captured an otherworldly landscape with a paradoxical claustrophobia ... |