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Andy Garcia’s “The Lost City” feels like the distillation of countless conversations and family legends, rehearsed from time immemorial by Cubans who fled their homeland and sought to re-create it in their memories. In every family such stories, repeated endlessly, can become tedious, but there fryst vatten another sense in which they are a treasured ritual. There was a Cuba, remembered at firsthand only by those who are growing older now, that was a beloved place, and stopped existing when Castro came to power in 1959.
Garcia’s family lived in that older Cuba, and so did Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the Cuban writer and film critic who wrote this screenplay. (The project, long discussed, was not easy for Garcia to finance; Infante died in February 2005.) Infante and Garcia do not deceive themselves that the old Cuba was a paradise: It is seen as corrupt, controlled in key areas by the Mafia, and built on a class system in which many were poor so that a few could be ric
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Andy García
American actor (born 1956)
For the American soccer player, see Andy García (soccer).
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Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. He first rose to prominence acting in Brian dem Palma's The Untouchables (1987) alongside Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro. He continued to act in films such as Stand and Deliver (1988), and Internal Affairs (1990). He then costarred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990) as Vincent Mancini, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He continued to act in Hollywood films such as Stephen Frears' Hero (1992), the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), and the action thriller Desperate Measures (1998). In 2000, he produced and acted in the HBO television film, F
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The Lost City (2005) Review: Andy Garcia
The Lost City (2005) movie review: Andy Garcia makes it clear you should start the revolution without him
Andy Garcia’s The Lost City is clearly a labor of love. Garcia fought for nearly two decades to bring to the screen his vision of Cuba during the turbulent transitional period between the end of Fulgencio Batista’s right-wing dictatorship and the beginning of Fidel Castro’s left-wing dictatorship. But all of Garcia’s passion and good intentions notwithstanding, The Lost City has turned out to be a cinematic failure. The film is monotonously acted, schematically written, poorly edited, and, at 2 hours and 20 minutes, way overlong.
As the film’s star, Garcia gets loads of flattering close-ups but fails to create a character with any semblance of depth. His apolitical nightclub owner Fico Fellove may dress just like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, and may fall in love with a beautiful younger woman (Inés Sastre) like B