![]() ![]() ![]() This would be his third attempt in his quest for The Lost City of Z. Photo: Courtesy of Amazon Studios First, let’s be clear that most of the characters in The Lost City of Z are Brits, which means the Z is pronounced Zed. This movie requires a little bit of thinking and involvement, but it's worth the effort. On 20 April 1910, celebrated explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett led an expedition into the Amazon Jungle. The images have a high-class, measured realism and complexity of character no one here is merely a hero or a villain, not even Macfadyen's Murray, whose scenes are the film's most primal and emotional ones (you really want him to suffer for his crimes). The new film The Lost City of Z, based on David Grann’s 2009 bestseller, tells the true story of Colonel Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who. The Amazon footage is harrowing and realistic you can feel the bugs buzzing around, as well as the supreme heat, humidity, and exhaustion. Yet it lacks Aguirre's madness it's missing the kind of enthusiasm or obsession that might help drive a movie like this.īut there's no denying that it's expertly made. Imagine a three way mashup of Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now and The New World but with an identity all its own thanks to its haunting visual style and intense character focus. Gray ( We Own the Night, Two Lovers, The Immigrant) is steeped in the cinema of the 1970s, and The Lost City of Z feels more like Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) than it does Raiders of the Lost Ark. An absolute masterpiece of filmmaking in every regard. ![]() James Gray makes intelligent, good-looking, grown-up movies that are admirable but somehow rather reserved this real-life adventure tale is a more sprawling work, but the result is similar. Movies Similar to The Lost City of Z: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Jungle (2017), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Embrace of the Serpent (2015). ![]()
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