2006 · comedy
Borat
Directed by Larry Charles1h 24m2006
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
Our read: Borat (2006) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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