The Lost City

Name: The Lost City
Genre: Drama
Released: April 28, 2006
Duration: 144 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre

2006

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: April 28, 2006 | R

Starring: Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre

Summary: Andy Garcia stars and makes his directorial debut in a passionate and historical tribute to his native Cuba. (Magnolia Pictures)

Director: Andy Garcia

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 144 min

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Michael Wilmington

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. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

Some of the tropes of The Lost City are ineffective. What does work is the sense of loss. The late Cuban novelist and screenwriter G. Cabrera Infante finds a brilliant device in the love affair between Fico and Aurora (Ines Sastre), his sister-in-law, in that Aurora in some way becomes Cuba. Read full review

Michael Sragow

Watching The Lost City is like falling into a delirious dream on a marathon train ride only to be roused every 15 minutes by a conductor punching your ticket or barking out the next stop. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Though the filmmaker's feel for his Cuban heritage is bone-deep, it's a glazed and dolorous movie - a depressed epic. Read full review

Jami Bernard

When an intensely emotional scene calls for the voice to break, call in Andy Garcia. He does the best voice-breaking, half-choked sob of anguish in the business, and he does it a lot in Lost City, his well-meaning directorial debut. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Garcia seems to be aping the "Godfather" movies and Warren Beatty's "Reds," but the movie's gracefulness is limited to its handling of the music (some of which Garcia wrote). Read full review

Wesley Morris

The Lost City is Andy Garcia's ballad to Havana during the Cuban revolution. You'll have to forgive the penthouse view, though -- it's the only one Garcia can seem to find. Read full review

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AmyB.

May 2, 2008

Mr Garcia i loved this movie, What a moving love story. I love Cuban food, music,culture and you really captured it all . I have been to Cuba, its sad what happened their.