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I'm a big fan of the musician Cachao, whom Andy Garcia worked with a lot before Cachao passed away. Really, Andy was the guy who brought Cachao back from semi-retirement to make what are a couple of masterpieces of Cuban music, See Cachao, Master Sessions Vol. 1 and 2.
I can't say I've ever been a big fan of Andy Garcia though.
That being said, I absolutely loved this movie, everything about it. I'm not Cuban, I'm a Yankee, about as WASP as they come, and I have little interest in arguing about the Cuban revolution or Fidel Castro or Batista, or anyone else in Cuba for that matter. Whatever arguments people want to carry on about Cuba and the revolution, have at it.
The funny thing is that I didn't find The Lost City to be a very political movie. Knowing Andy Garcia and his passion for all things Cuban, I would have expected him to throw in a bunch of anti-communist propaganda. He didn't (no matter what other reviewers say). If anything, Andy could have thrown in a lot of ugly scenes depicting all the awful things the communists really did do in Cuba after the revolution. But he didn't.
To me, this is a movie by a guy who truly loves the country and culture he comes from, and he just wanted to make a movie to express it. He does so wonderfully. He depicts Cuba during the revolution through his characters, and doesn't really take any unfair swipes at anybody on any side.
This movie isn't a deep 'masterpiece' by a 'great' film-maker. Sometimes those kind of movies are terrible movies no matter who wrote, directed or starred in them. I can remember walking out of an Oscar front runner 'great' movie, laughing with my ex-wife (who graduated with a film degree from USC), about how 'God-awful that movie was.' I don't need perfect structure. If you have any experience reading the books of, or watching the movies of, great storytellers, you will have noticed that they make mistakes, try things that don't work, and hit rough patches all the time. So what.
What I loved most about The Lost City is the way the actors are treated. Andy Garcia lets everybody, every character, every actor just shine in this movie. He has an obvious affection not only for Cuba, but for actors and the arts of storytelling and movie making. His affection jumps off the screen in every scene.
I wish Andy would appear in a few more blockbusters so he can save up some money, make a movie, and tell us another story like this one.
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S l o w, painfully slow homage to the last days of Havana before the revolution. Trouble is Andy Garcia acted AND directed, and no one told him, no. The pace is glacial. Garcia loves Cuban music and he pays almost as much homage to it as to his plot, such as it is. And what is Bill Murray doing in this? He is totally out of place. The colors really pop and the scenery is pretty, but Garcia should stick to acting. The script stinks, and the directing is painful.
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Andy Garcia, son of Cuban immigrants, traces the darkest moments experienced by a bourgeois family trapped by the Revolution. Andy Garcia gives a just farewell to Guevara myth that appears as in itself, minister of justice exception (the courts of exception) responsible for serial murders, crimes (finally! How long I expected for a movie Very dangerous and pale Guevara.
The passions. Trouble when bribing a Batista, gangrene American Mafia (though described in "Havana" the thriller by Stephen Hunter) disputed the bloody communism.
Andy Garcia issues a superb history. Bravo.
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I purchased several copies (5) of Lost City. Why, you may ask. Well, I gave 4 away to close friends who were interested in what happened in Cuba and Castro in the early 1960's.
I lived those days in Cuba as a teenager; experienced the radical changes in the government structure, the theft of Cuban's personal homes, properties and businesses....so, I know first hand what happened and what was depicted in this video by Andy Garcia - a fellow Cuban-American.
Also, I happened to have a very close friend, Peter Dominguez Fox, nephew of Martin Fox, the owner of Tropicana Nightclub which is depicted as the nightclub in the video. I visited Tropicana many times with Peter and other friends that were American born and Cuban raised or Cuban born and American raised like myself. I recommend this video without reservations.
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I have a passion for Cuban culture and this movie really does a great job depicting that. It has a good story, but it can be slow at times.
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