Lost in Karastan

2014

1 hr. 30 min.

Comedy

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38%

13 Reviews

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40%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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A filmmaker from England is hired to make an epic movie in the Caucasus region in Europe.

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While the film starts off on a decent premise. (Director going to foreign Borat/Soviet esc nation to make movie) It quickly falls apart after the first act. It transitions rather rapidly from a relatively okay comedy to a dark and rather convoluted mess. Plot points end up being unresolved, the filming scene drags on while the psychological effects on characters and their changes are not delved into. The main female love interest is never really explored and just feels like she is there whenever the script needs her, despite her character having by far the most interesting backstory in the movie. This all adds to an ending which feels lazy, unresolved and ultimately and movie which doesn't add up. It's not really worth watching due to the script being so weak. But if the film does have any plus points the performances from MacFadyen and Buring are decent, That however does not fix the flat and lacklustre writing. Rather critical but settling on 1.5 stars. Can't go higher.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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rather bland film about a down on his luck film maker given the opportunity to make a epic film about karastan

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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There's a bit of 'Borat' about this, but with a straight man in the lead role and the craziness all around him. The humour and satire are quite good.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Ben Hopkins

Director

Matthew Macfadyen

Emil Forester

Noah Taylor

Xan Butler

MyAnna Buring

Chulpan

Richard van Weyden

President Abashiliev

Alistair Cook

Daniel

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

A missed opportunity.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 22, 2016

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Broad comedy this may be, but it's well made and founded on a funky kind of social-realist plausibility, and the locations (in Tbilisi, Georgia) are rather amazing.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 21, 2016

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Tom Huddleston

Time Out

A good-natured but laugh-deficient British comedy.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 19, 2016

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Alexa Dalby

Dog and Wolf

It's an unusual British film that has ambitions beyond the prevailing London-gangs mode, and it's well worth a look.

Rated: 3/5

May 31, 2019

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Matthew Anderson

CineVue

Despite apparently noble intentions, and what must constitute a healthy dose of personal experience from the film-within-a-film scenario chosen by the director... Lost in Karastan is a frustratingly fruitless endeavor.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 8, 2019

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Naila Scargill

Trebuchet

Pitching itself as a satirical black comedy, Lost in Karastan ultimately falls flat.

Feb 28, 2019

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Synopsis

A filmmaker from England is hired to make an epic movie in the Caucasus region in Europe.

Director: Ben Hopkins
Screenwriter: Ben Hopkins, Pawel Pawlikowski
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English

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