This is a very sad and winsome film.
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05/06/06
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
As a director, Garcia is such a sucker for gratuitous crosscutting and glossily elliptical filmmaking that viewers can be forgiven for mistaking Lost City for a 143-minute montage sequence.
05/04/06
Garcia, who fled the country with his family as a young boy, obviously has a fierce passion for this material, and he knows to his very soul.
05/01/06
Garcia's aching nostalgia for the glittering Havana of his dreams is palpable, but he winds up painting by the same 'doomed romance against a backdrop of revolution' numbers as piffle like Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
04/28/06
... a lost movie that seems like it takes 16 years to end.
04/28/06
How the movie's politics will sit with the audience aside, one of the problems in this overlong melodrama is the distracting casting of Bill Murray as a wisecracking sidekick and Dustin Hoffman as mobster Meyer Lansky.
04/28/06
The sprawling -- two hours, 23 minutes -- epic meanders in places and its mix of tones and templates do not always serve its narrative. But the movie comes from the heart, filled with a passion that carries it through its rougher patches.
04/28/06
Havana may remain, in many ways, a lost city, but it'll take more than this movie to find it.
04/28/06
... the film seems like a mini-series edited to feature length without time for character development.
04/28/06
The Lost City manages to make Havana, Sydney Pollack's disastrous 1990 attempt at a Casablanca homage set against the Cuban revolution with Robert Redford, look good by comparison.
04/28/06
Noteworthy and well-intended, The Lost City isn't exactly a lost opportunity, just a sincerely limited one.
04/28/06
... a haphazard jumble.
04/28/06
Top Critic... a romantic epic manque that swoons across the screen for nearly two and a half hours without saying much ...
04/28/06
Top Critic... it's too long, politically confusing and painfully self-indulgent, loaded with too many tertiary characters and darting from one subplot to the next like a butterfly with hiccups.
04/27/06
Compelling in fits and starts, actor-director Andy Garcia's The Lost City possesses grand aspirations but troublesome execution.
04/27/06
A lot goes wrong in this overlong movie, but it has a human touch.
04/27/06
...even trying to put [politics] aside, The Lost City has a number of problems.
04/27/06
Staged with credibility and loads of Cubano flair, the film slows to a sludgy crawl, giving us lots of time to consider it as a pro-old-guard, anti- revolutionary elegy.
04/25/06
Andy Garcia takes his time showing putting a plague on both the houses of Batista and Castro.
04/25/06
Garcia offers the film to the Cuban community as something we should all be happy to see, but his esteem does not excuse the film's aesthetic mediocrity, cultural ignorance, and colossal self-absorption.
04/21/06
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