Based on a 300-page script by G. Cabrera Infante, who died in February, "The Lost City" is a handsome production but one that struggles to integrate its various elements -- cabaret-society glamour, intellectual fervor, family drama, impossible romance and droll humor. Through the prism of the well-to-do Fellove family, "Lost City" shows that the anti-Batista revolution was in large part a product of Cuba's middle and upper-middle class. Patriarch Federico (Tomas Milian), a professor given to philosophical musings, believes in democratic change, while sons Ricardo (Enrique Murciano) and Luis (Nestor Carbonell) are ardent proponents of violent overthrow, the latter leading a daring assassination attempt -- a well-staged, powerful sequence.

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