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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Directed by
Raoul Peck
NR
2024
1h 46m
Documentary
7.1
96%
Rent for $7.99
Follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa.
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Cast of Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
LaKeith Stanfield
Ernest Cole (voice)
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Ratings & Reviews
POV Magazine
Jason Gorber
Cole seems a perfect subject for Peck. They mirror each other in both the precision of their gaze and the way that even the smallest relevant details are given space and context to be resolved.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Valerie Complex
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found is a necessary tribute that ensures Ernest's contributions are recognized and remembered for generations.
indieWire
Vikram Murthi
These affecting anecdotes are only occasionally supported by Peck's scattered direction, whose big-tent approach to personal and global history often feels slapdash.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
In an age of image inundation - when the violence of fascist regimes are on full display - revisiting Cole's oeuvre serves as a reminder of the power of acknowledging what lays before you.
Next Best Picture
John Bleasdale
Partly, it is an act of resurrection, simply by allowing viewers to see so many of Cole's photographs - works that are alive with narrative and incident.
Black Girl Nerds
Chalice Williams
You're left feeling that he deserved better, a longer lasting legacy, for he was a pioneer in his field who deserved his flowers while he was alive.
The Playlist
Ankit Jhunjhunwala
Pictures of the persecuted Black people in peril, often surrounded by uniformed officers about to execute an atrocity, horrifyingly recall Nazi Germany.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
Watching "Lost and Found," you're moved by a life that veered into tragedy, yet the place it lands lifts you up. More than a great photographer, Ernest Cole captured something essential. By the end you feel the ghost is speaking to you.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
Oscar-nominated actor Lakeith Stanfield hauntingly whispers Cole's thoughts and observations in touching voiceovers. It makes you feel like Cole is in the room.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Powerful historical documentary.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
The film paints a vivid portrait of what life was like for Black South Africans under apartheid.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found becomes more than a biography of its subject, because it's as much about his inner life and how he saw the world...
New York Times
Lisa Kennedy
Peck's film stands as a requisite biography, but also a personal homage: The response of one politically conscious artist to the call of another.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... builds a cumulative potency in sharing story that Cole himself was prevented from fully telling.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
Peck spends so much time unpacking Cole's inner life from his diaries and notebooks, because while the photos may live on in archives, those are the stories most at risk of disappearing from the frame.
Nonfics
Christopher Campbell
The film is memorable for how it showcases Cole's brilliant photographs and words more than how it was achieved.
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found is a meaningful tribute to South African photographer Ernest Cole. However, it would've been a better documentary if it investigated how 60,000 negatives of Cole's photos were secretly hidden in a Swiss bank for decades.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Peter Rainer
I wasn't that acquainted with Cole's work. It's quite extraordinary and on full display in this film.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
Tonally correct in every possible way.
Metro Arts
Michael J. Casey
Fascinating photography, even if the documentary isn't.
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