The Lost City (2005)

Director:

Andy Garcia

Writer:

Guillermo Cabrera Infante (written by)

Release Date:

16 June 2006 (Canada)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A place you leave is a place that lives forever.

Plot:

In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner...

Plot Keywords:

Nightclub | Cuba | Havana Cuba | Fidel Castro | 1950s

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Alfredo Armenteros	...	Chocolate (as Alfredo 'Chocolate' Armenteros)
Danny Pino	...	Alberto Mora
Richard Marquez	...	Rega
Franklin Dominguez	...	Lieutenant Dario
William Marquez	...	Rodney
Andy Garcia	...	Fico Fellove
Nestor Carbonell	...	Luis Fellove
Inés Sastre	...	Aurora Fellove
Tomas Milian	...	Don Federico Fellove
Millie Perkins	...	Doña Cecilia Fellove
Richard Bradford	...	Don Donoso Fellove
Enrique Murciano	...	Ricardo Fellove
Dominik García-Lorido	...	Mercedes Fellove
Victor Rivers	...	El Indio
Amelia Vega	...	Minerva

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

144 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:14 | Netherlands:16 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | USA:R (certificate #41664) | Argentina:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:15 | UK:15 | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Company:

Crescent Drive Pictures

Trivia:

Took 16 years to get made.

Goofs:

Continuity: 50 minutes in the movie there is a scene where Fico interrupts Pizzi's dinner. You see Fico with a burning cigarette in the mirror's reflection. He pulls his cigarette from his mouth. Then the camera angle switches directly on him and you see him with a non-burning cigarette in his mouth. When you see Fico's reflection again the cigarette has disappeared from his mouth.

Quotes:

Aurora Fellove: Who said woman is like a flower?
Fico Fellove: Poet with a sensitive smell.

Movie Connections:

References "The Jimmy Durante Show" (1954)

Soundtrack:

Si Me Pudieras Querer

Andy García's work of love and courage

Critics all over have trashed this movie on account on its politics, angry at the way García has depicted Che Guevara as the real murderer he was, at the way he has portrayed the profound injustices and oppression of Fidel Castro's regime, at the way it does not conform to the sympathetic view Hollywood has always had about the Cuban Revolution. The movie suffers sometimes from the inexperienced hand of a first-time director, the lack of the epic budget it needed, and the poor acting of Inés Sastre but it is not a bad movie, not at all. It's an extremely entertaining film that uses its modest resources with great care to give us a dignified, sincere, notably balanced and very emotional document of the terrible experience of the Cuban people. Don't believe the extremely biased reviews of The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other media. Go and see it. Music lovers will enjoy a splendid mix of popular and classical Cuban music, and a great original score which will make a nice CD.