Lost City needed more Amazon, less England (2017)

Rated NR

I appreciated the parts of The Lost City of Z set in the Amazon. The piranha attack in particular presented the extreme danger of the river and jungle with skilled cinematographic style, as you noted. At times the journey on the river felt almost Apocalypse Now-esque in its hazy, surreal quality. And, the almost comical dismissal of

Le Havre (2011)

Drama Rated NR

“…plays less like a snapshot of Europe wrestling with the realities of a migrant crisis and more like a fantasy about how Kaurismaki wishes every migrant’s story would play out.”