'The Lost City of Z' to Close NYFF for World Premiere

HaydnSpurrell James Gray's The Lost City of Z is set to close the NYFF 2016, with Ava DuVernay's The 13th and Mike Mills' 20th Century Women serving as opening a centerpiece titles, respectively.

Z “represents something new. It’s a true epic, spanning two continents and three decades, and it’s a genuine vision of the search for sublimity," said Kent Jones, chair of the selection committee.

Here's an official synopsis: “James Gray’s emotionally and visually resplendent epic tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett (a remarkable Charlie Hunnam), the British military-man-turned-explorer whose search for a lost city deep in the Amazon grows into an increasingly feverish, decades-long magnificent obsession that takes a toll on his reputation, his home life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and children, and his very existence. Gray and cinematographer Darius Khondji cast quite a spell, exquisitely pitched between rapture and dizzying terror. Also starring Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, The Lost City of Z represents a form of epic storytelling that has all but vanished from the landscape of modern cinema, and a rare level of artistry.”

Source: TheFilmStage