52/100
Knew basically zilch about this going in—the book hadn't crossed my path, and I avoid reading anything at all about films I definitely plan to see. So I just assumed it to be an entirely original work, since that's all Gray had previously made (apart from Two Lovers being partially/vaguely inspired by Dostoyevsky, which I'd forgotten was even the case until I fact-checked this sentence). Sometime after Fawcett returns from his second expedition and resigns from the Royal Geographical Society, however, it became clear to me that I was watching a story based on actual events, simply because no screenwriter would ever fashion such a disjointed narrative from scratch. And if I'm sitting there thinking "this is so unsatisfying,…