★★☆☆☆Coming to you from a newly autonomous republic somewhere in the vast plains of the Caucasus is a real oddity. Lost in Karastan - the latest offering from British filmmaker Ben Hopkins - is difficult to pin down. Modelling itself as a satirical black comedy interrogating the nature of creativity, art vs. love, and what constitutes national identity, Hopkins ventures into unknown Eastern European territory and gets completely lost. Without a map, or any semblance of a plan, he leaves his audience helplessly stranded there. 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 and his co-screenwriter Pawel Pawlikowksi, Lost in Karastan is a frustratingly fruitless endeavour.
- 1/28/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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