Gray is not Herzog, Percy is not Aguirre, and The Lost City of Z, for all its beauty and thoughtfulness, is not the kind of film that would allow craziness to take over. The Lost City of Z spans 1905 - 1925 and details how Percy Fawcett was tasked by Sir George Goldie (Ian McDiarmid) and the Royal Geographical Society to survey the Amazon jungle between the borders of Bolivia and Brazil, which are on the brink of conflict. Just think of Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God to see how far such a hero might go. Still, Percy is not treated like a crazed man. They color his views of others his obsessions are his life, which interferes with a true understanding of others. His obsessions do harm his relations with his family. Gray is not afraid of showing the darker side of Percy. The character is treated with respect, but there is never a feeling that her story will equal Percy's. But this is Percy's story, not Nina's, and ultimately, Nina takes a back seat. Sienna Miller does a fine job as Percy's wife Nina, and Gray takes care to show how Nina is of her times, a feminist married to a man who claims to be at her side in the battle for equality. Percy finds himself in the search, but while he loves his family, they are never enough to keep him home when the Lost City is still waiting to be found. When Percy goes to the Amazon, he leaves his family behind for years. It's the story of a British soldier and explorer Percy Fawcett at the turn of the 20th century who goes looking for a lost city in the Amazon. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British surveyor, to an indigenous city that he believed had existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. No big deal, but it was startling the first time I heard it. The Lost City of Z is the name given by Col. To get the obvious out of the way, the movie is a biopic about British characters, so the title is pronounced "The Lost City of ZED". In short, there was nothing about The Lost City of Z to turn me away, but neither had it caught my attention. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous. ![]() ![]() The star was Charlie Hunnam, who has been in some movies I liked but who I know mostly from Sons of Anarchy. The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. I'd seen a couple of James Gray's earlier films ( We Own the Night, which didn't do much for me, and Two Lovers, a romance I liked OK), but nothing to bring him to my current attention. It did poorly at the box office, and did generally well with critics (it's #933 on the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They list of the top 1000 films of the 21st century), but it's not a standout in either case.
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