The Lost City (2005)
Set in Havana, Cuba in the late 1950s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent night-club owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the government of Fidel Castro.
8 August 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 March 1933, Havana, Cuba
13 April 1938, Cuba
15 April 1974, Miami, Florida, USA
13 December 1956, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
12 April 1956, Havana, Cuba
31 May 1955, Florida, USA
12 May 1938, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
1977, Santiago, Dominican Republic
23 September 1959, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
December 05, 2008
There may be a good film here, but it struggles to break free of the cumbersome framework.
August 01, 2006
When it succeeds, the film conveys a bittersweet longing for a lost moment and the unfulfilled promise of a democratic Cuba.
June 22, 2006
Somehow simultaneously too much and not enough. At 143 minutes, it well overstays its welcome as a movie, but with a little more fleshing out it might have worked as a miniseries.
December 05, 2008
Andy Garcia's preposterous vanity project The Lost City is an all-singing, all-dancing version of the Cuban Revolution.
July 06, 2010
By the half way point I was beginning to take back everything I said re Steven Soderbergh's dull-as-ditchwater Che: Part II - even he manages to drum up more tension than this.
December 05, 2008
'The Lost City' is intriguing as a historical document and adequate as cinema, but it has a blandness at its core that no amount of spicy mambo and booty-quaking dance routines can disguise.
June 23, 2006
It's handsome and heartfelt but mired in murky politics, plot inertia, musical montages and painfully pointed symbolism.
August 30, 2009
Unfolds like a series of as outtakes from Hollywood productions
December 05, 2008
Great music and costumes, but with a woeful plot and jaw-droppingly stilted dialogue. Cuban-born Garcia's main complaint against Fidel seems to be that rich, corrupt Cubans could no longer dance the night away.
June 22, 2006
Unsteady but often entrancing.
December 05, 2008
The script is scrupulously even-handed, but Garcia can't seem to get a grip on this sprawl.
June 23, 2006
Garcia needed better guiding hands and eyes in the editing room to jettison the many parts that bog down the story.
