2017 · adventure · drama · history
The Lost City of Z
Directed by James Gray2h 21m2017
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.
Our read: The Lost City of Z (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded adventure · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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