Lost in Karastan

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Lost in Karastan

2014,

1h 30m,

Comedy

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38%

13 Reviews

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40%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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38%

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13 Reviews

40%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

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

Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Jan 22, 2016

2/5

A missed opportunity.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Jan 21, 2016

3/5

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.

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Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Jan 19, 2016

2/5

A good-natured but laugh-deficient British comedy.

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Alexa Dalby

Dog and Wolf

May 31, 2019

3/5

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

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Matthew Anderson

CineVue

Apr 8, 2019

2/5

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.

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Naila Scargill

Trebuchet

Feb 28, 2019

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

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Kylo R

Jan 18, 2017

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.

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Ben Hopkins

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Matthew Macfadyen

Emil Forester

Noah Taylor

Xan Butler

MyAnna Buring

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Richard van Weyden

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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
Producer: Mike Downey, Andreas Eicher, Daniel Zuta, Vladimer Katcharava, Sam Taylor, Artyom Vasilev
Screenwriter: Ben Hopkins, Paweł Pawlikowski
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30m

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