The coming CD, not the DVD, should be the keeper.
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05/26/06
The Lost City (2006)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:21
Rotten:61
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Its heart is in the right place, but what starts as a promising exercise devolves into an overlong, unevenly directed disappointment.
Theatrical Release:05-12-2008
Synopsis: The Lost City is actor/director Andy Garcia’s bittersweet lyric celebration of Cuban culture that took him 16 years to make. Using music, literature and dance, City captures Havana in full... [More]
Starring: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Inés Sastre
Director: Andy Garcia
Reviews for The Lost City
Somewhere amid the bric-a-brac -- hot rhythms, ocean breezes and political upheaval and melodrama -- a movie languishes. Garcia never really finds it.
05/26/06
A pretty bauble, a trinket offered when the stakes of barter were life and death.
05/26/06
What makes this movie interesting is the family (and not just because it's made up of 3 beautiful brothers). It's a love story, between a man and a woman and between a people and their country.
05/26/06
While earnest in intent and visually elegant, simply too narratively amorphous and emotionally desiccated.
05/26/06
Lovely to look at, and its mixture of Cuban standards and Garcia originals is delightful to listen to.
05/25/06
Though the filmmaker's feel for his Cuban heritage is bone-deep, it's a glazed and dolorous movie -- a depressed epic.
05/20/06
As a musical fever dream of paradise lost, The Lost City is a flawed success, boasting just enough truth and admirable purpose to justify the hazards of Garcia's passion.
05/19/06
The film suggests a dutiful if clunky pastiche of The Godfather and a right-wing Reds, with Fellove and his brothers and parents representing a spectrum of possible responses to the Cuban revolution.
05/19/06
... full of characters with import more symbolic than dramatic (Bill Murray plays a veritable court jester), ideas that wander and contradictions that dissipate.
05/18/06
A tribute to pre-revolutionary Havana, an elegy on what was lost, a little payback for a regime that drove his family out and, best of all, a synthesis of the driving Afro-Cuban rhythms of the extraordinary music.
05/18/06
You can see why Garcia was drawn to this material, but he hasn't had much luck shaping it into a film.
05/18/06
'That's not filmmaking,' I thought, 'that's photography.' 'That's not acting, that's posing.' 'That's not Jon Lovitz, it's Andy Garcia!'
05/18/06
The Lost City has a subject, a setting and a historical backdrop, but in the foreground it has a relatively passive protagonist, Fico, whose passions are understated and whose fortunes inspire only minor concern.
05/12/06
Overdirected, yes, but it's an epic, passionate portrayal.
05/12/06
Feels like the distillation of countless conversations and family legends, rehearsed from time immemorial by Cubans who fled their homeland and sought to re-create it in their memories.
05/12/06
Top CriticIt's the sort of epic that aspires to tell Cuba's modern political history and celebrate its people without introducing us to a single believable character.
05/12/06
Musical...handsome...poignantly nostalgic...The Lost City is a lot of things, but what it's not is incisive.
05/12/06
Throbbing with music, seething with anger and romance, The Lost City is a film that breaks your heart, bewilders, alienates and ravishes you by turns.
05/11/06
Handsomely executed but hopelessly flawed.
05/10/06
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