Synopsis
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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Cast
- Charlie HunnamPercival Fawcett
- Robert PattinsonHenry Costin
- Sienna MillerNina Fawcett
- Tom HollandJack Fawcett
- Angus MacfadyenJames Murray
- Edward AshleyArthur Manley
- Clive FrancisSir John Scott Keltie
- Ian McDiarmidSir George Goldie
- Franco NeroBaron de Gondoriz
- Matthew SunderlandDan
Recommendations
- 100
TheWrap
The Lost City of Z feels like a clear artistic advance for Gray, who proves himself here as one of our finest and most distinctive living filmmakers. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The Lost City of Z is a rare piece of contemporary classical cinema; its virtues of methodical storytelling, traditional style and obsessive theme are ones that would have been recognized and embraced anytime from the 1930s through the 1970s. - 88
Slant Magazine
The Lost City of Z links every weathered look that Percy Fawcett throws to the heart of his spiritual yearning. - 83
The Film Stage
The lushness of its images, how they simultaneously recall and move forward, in concert with its confidence in its pacing, as a work of both writing and editing, are a powerful thing taken in-tandem. - 80
The Guardian
Much will be said about Gray’s cinematic craft (as is often the case when a director works with cinematographer Darius Khondji) but beneath the slow roll down the river pierced by arrows from unseen, defensive natives, there’s a fascinating, mercurial screenplay that offers just enough to keep you journeying for more insight. - 80
CineVue
An ornately mounted story marked with tints of antiquarianism, The Lost City of Z is perhaps Gray's most accomplished film to date. - 75
The Playlist
The Lost City Of Z won’t be for all viewers, but its delicate devotion to itself is something sure to inspire admiration and obsessives. - 70
Variety
The Lost City of Z is a finely crafted, elegantly shot, sharply sincere movie that is more absorbing than powerful. It makes no major dramatic missteps, yet it could have used an added dimension — something to make the two-hour-and-20-minute running time feel like a transformative journey rather than an epic anecdotal crusade.
