-LRB- Dargis -RRB- ` THE LOST CITY ' -LRB- R , 143 minutes -RRB- Andy Garcia 's ode to the Havana of pre-Communist Cuba is a romantic epic manque that swoons across the screen for nearly 2 1\/2 hours without saying much beyond the fact that life sure was peachy before Fidel Castro came to town and ruined everything .