In his last film to date, The Immigrant (2013), Gray had attempted to move its lines, for a result mixed. Certainly, he dedicated himself to a heroin and was projected in the past (the 1920s), but remained in New York and the character played by Marion Cotillard, sort of prostitute Madonna, gritting her teeth during all his way Cross, was not without mentioning the standard template of males who had preceded. Woody Allen to Koh-Lanta Today, The Lost City of Z (Yes, We get there) for once a brand renewed scenery. This is not as if Woody Allen was part of Koh- Lanta, but still: Gray left to the first time New York, oscillating between England century (in the company the actors for the most part British) and especially the Amazon. The very title of the movie sounds like a program: escape of the family birthplace for a dimension unknown – X, Y or Z-, desire that seems confirm Ad Astra, the next project announced of Gray, because he will venture in science fiction, and a interstellar travel. Arises in the Lost City of Z – other new – like the biopic of a English, military craft, Explorer Percy Fawcett: man sought, between 1905 and 1925, the remains of a hypothetical cited evidence of a lost – Amazonian civilization that he baptize Z If nothing else. Righteousness Gray remains but to be so uprooted and transplanted in the jungle, She finds the strength that she reveals his quirk – all Western faced with this ecosystem and the tribes Native American as Fawcett and his men Cross. The foreground of the film (a circle torches, in the forest and in the Middle night), referring to Apocalypse Now, announces a priori, one diving initiation at the heart of darkness, why not a baroque opera (the Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog, everything) as Aguirre, are reflected also clearly). Wrong track, we will be not in the flamboyant: Gray manages. even in the middle of the vines and Yucca plants.  to perpetuate his beautiful palette off and his correctness. Fawcett is from the same lineage that the previous characters in Gray. It is certainly physically brave, but ye knows (and unclear) not why. Sound obsession for Z is nothing: a few gossip of Indian pottery that he found during a first mission also risky that marked since, cartographer training, he was sent to Amazon  to settle a border dispute between the Brazil and the Bolivia. Return in England, this is the military priori pragmatic (and rigid as it should) claiming vehemently that there is a lost in the Amazon but also as city  the genius of the natives must be recognize as the equal of that of the West: hullabaloo among lords. During the entire movie, the exact mobile of this fad will not be decided: the ambitious Fawcett is only the means of glory, recognition social which he said Miss initially, or has there been a real enlightenment? Gray is customary law of this sort of doubt, between suspense and coup, fog and deus ex machina. Maybe it’s his How to still believe in freedom, in tag with the arbitrary. The Lost City of Z turns out be a film more stubbornness of adventure: the Amazon will be a lot of twists and turns, of indecisive encounters with Aboriginal peoples (among other things, placid cannibals) but also with of animals (which is also New at Gray), especially during a tremendously composted by sequence a school of piranhas. The film insists above all on exhaustion, sometimes boredom, often silence, always the tenacity of which to draw straight in lines the jungle – the ordinary the grandiose. This that too, dug through ellipses cut with machetes, the balance of Fawcett back and forth between the jungle and England, where he has to defend its expeditions and especially to find a woman and children who are in the meantime morphed. To wonder if the real adventure is not of this side of the ocean, where to play the biggest action scenes the film (a splendid hunting hounds at the opening, an assault of the battalion commissioned by Fawcett during the first War). As always with Gray, one wonders whether he should escape or go home, except that he no longer knows h0w to distinguish his house and the great outdoors - Between this English home that he visits from far far away and this Amazonia that he better and better, who sees it and who will by pushing everywhere, in the trenches or in London smokehouses. Can we lose on a straight line? Perhaps this is Gray’s great question, which was doped the rubber sap, responds once again. Yes.