HOW GREEN WAS MY INFERNO

It's rare to find a movie these days that believes in adventure and sincerity and pure storytelling as interchangeable qualities, and lives up to all of them.

Percy's ambitions of finding Z reflect that of Gray's ambitions with his biggest project to date. Reminiscent of the films of David Lean, The Lost City of Z is a marvel of a film that packs a surprising emotional punch. Gray's themes of family continue and deepen more with this astonishing film. I couldn't stop looking at it. Images that feel reminiscent of Paths of Glory and Apocalypse Now are great but Gray adds his own spin to keep it fresh. So many amazing images that it's too much t unpack on a first viewing. That final shot is an all timer. This confirms that James Gray is the next great American Director. Let's all bow down to a true master.

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Gray's triumph over the tricky delicacy and tenderness of a well-timed match cut is nothing less than majestic. One in particular, matching a household fixture with a remnant of the front in WWI, reorients the space as one environment, both wasting moments as Fawcett yearns for the winding greenery and mysteries of the Jungle once again, shackled to necessities of family and honor. Just a remarkable, remarkable work.

Hunnam had next to no charisma.

Yet another book that I really want to read but got around to seeing the film first and "The Lost City of Z" is indeed a very good film from director James Gray. This is a "based on a true story" movie that involves British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) who journeys into the Amazon jungle at the beginning of the 20th century. He is on the look out for a previously undiscovered people group in this part of the world. The Scientific establishment ridicules him. In 1925, he would mysteriously disappear but man, this is a fascinating story.

i just feel the sensation of fear in the ending.
holy, TOM HOLLAND and his sweet moustache lost and have never found

Very solid film, pretty much didn’t even feel like a period piece. Great acting from the whole cast great production design and cinematography. I also like how it places the native americans as equals to the english conquerors in an explicit way. Also it pushes for gender equality with the very strong female character of the main’s wife.

"The Jungle is everywhere."

The film harkens back to the classic mold of the American Epics from the likes of John Huston and David Lean (1950-1960s) but imbued with the grimy and illusory pictorial aesthetic of Apocalypse now. And despite the self-evident grandeur and scope of it all, the film focalizes heavily on the individual Percy Fawcett which I think is what makes this film so captivating in the end. Although incredible, I have to say, this film sort of feels like a preliminary step towards Ad Astra and I have no doubt James Gray will deliver just like he has with "The Lost City of Z".

Ich muss zugeben, dass ich zuvor nichts über den Titel gelesen habe. Rein von der Beurteilung des Blu-Ray-Covers her dachte ich mir, ich bekomme heute einen Abenteuerfilm im Stile von "Indy" geboten. Dem war nicht so. Als ich mich daran gewöhnt hatte, dass es sich hierbei um ein Historiendrama handelt, habe ich mich auch darauf einlassen können.

Stellenweise fühlte ich mich zwar etwas verloren (wie passend: "lost" city...haha!); den rote Faden konnte ich jedoch (glücklicherweise) dann wieder finden. Der Film kann sich schon sehen lassen. Ich beschränke mich mal auf Folgendes: ein malerisch und wohl erzähltes Historiendrama, das hauptsächlich von der Schauspieltechnik des stets bemühten Charlie Hunnam und der reizenden Sienna Miller ganz nett getragen wird. Sogar ein junger Tom Holland taucht auf.

Fazit: Kann man mal zwischenreinschieben.

Fuck this movie is gorgeous i didn't knew the real story before but this movie impressed me it was awesome and this ending made me wanna die
A good movie almost without action and that's a good thing sometime

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