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Mood:
- StylizedTouchingEmotionalSincereCaptivating
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Plot:
- PoliticsParents and ChildrenSiblings RelationsPolitical UnrestState AffairsFamily ProblemsFamily RelationsIdealism more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- CubaNightclub
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- JazzLatin
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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The Lost City, 2005
English, Spanish
USA
Profile of The Lost City
The Lost City can be described as stylized, touching, and emotional. The plot revolves around political unrest, politics, and sibling relations. The main genres are drama and period. In terms of style, The Lost City is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, at a nightclub. The Lost City is located in Cuba. It takes place in the 1950s. The soundtrack is latin and jazz. Note that The Lost City involves violent content.
Summary of The Lost City
Andy Garcia stars in, directs, and produces this highly personal movie, a lengthy tale about his native Cuba. The Lost City, a labor of love that Garcia has attempted to film for almost 20 years, was penned by his writer friend, the Cuban exile Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who didn't live to see the film completed. The film is set in Havana, where Garcia plays nightclub owner Fico Fellove, whose life revolves around the thriving scene that unfolds there on a nightly basis. But trouble looms when one of his brothers, Luis (Nestor Carbonell), is killed after a violent raid on the presidential palace. Matters get worse as Fellove's other brother, Ricardo (Enrique Murciano), harboring revolutionary ideas in retaliation for Luis's death, heads out to join the forces gathered by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Meanwhile, Meyer Lansky (Dustin Hoffman), a tough American gangster, puts pressure on Fellove to sell his club and build a new one with mobster money.
In the course of the film, Garcia manages to create the sense that Cuba wasn't really better off before Castro's rise to power--or after. The cast all give fine performances, and Bill Murray drops by to deliver his trademark dry wit as a droll character found among the patrons of Fellove's club. Although the run-time may be off-putting to some, the film is a journey worth taking, as Infante's words are beautifully rendered by Garcia and his cast.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 3 September 2005 |
| Runtime: | 144 min |
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The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Sheri Linden
Washington Post
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- by: Stephen Hunter
Users Reviews
- 08.November.2008
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- by: Noa
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- 16.August.2008
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- by: fletcher.munson
- fletcher.munson rated this movie4/10Disappointing
