The Lost City
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- Synopsis
- Set in Havana, Cuba, during the 50's, a club owner (Andy Garcia) is caught in the turbulent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro....
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- Starring
- Andy García, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Ines Sastre
- Director(s)
- Andy García
- Distributor(s)
- Magnolia
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 143 min.
Critic Reviews
The movie evokes that long-ago world carefully and with a certain poetry; it was shot in the Dominican Republic. There is a lot of music, much of it from the period and performed by the same musicians or their successors.Read the full review
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 the full review
A handsome production but one that struggles to integrate its various elements -- cabaret-society glamour, intellectual fervor, family drama, impossible romance and droll humor.Read the full review
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