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- 2020
- Dekanalog
- 1 h 31 m
- 2020
- Dekanalog
- 1 h 31 m
Summary A Dutch girl of Bosnian descent travels to Bosnia to visit her sick father. It will be the first time they will see each other.
Directed By: Ena Sendijarevic
Written By: Ena Sendijarevic
- 2020
- Dekanalog
- 1 h 31 m
- 2020
- Dekanalog
- 1 h 31 m
Take Me Somewhere Nice
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Summary A Dutch girl of Bosnian descent travels to Bosnia to visit her sick father. It will be the first time they will see each other.
Directed By: Ena Sendijarevic
Written By: Ena Sendijarevic
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
69
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Multinational Alma (Sara Luna Zorić, excellent) is at the edge of womanhood, gazing into a fractured world that reflects — what else? — a fractured self. Displacement gives rise to the unhomely, the uncanny. Ena Sendijarević’s playful, delightful Take Me Somewhere Nice frames and articulates this spatial and psychological confusion, offering emotional distance against sharp material proximity.
Poking fun at those who left and those who couldn’t, Take Me Somewhere Nice conjures up a love letter to a restless generation mired in a frustrated quest for belonging — one that stretches far beyond the country and time it’s set in, and reads as an engrossing, bittersweet memoir.
What differentiates Sendijarević’s film, however, is the hot-blooded current of feminine lust that runs through it. Zorić’s Alma stomps, pouts and scowls her way through the film, aware of her sexual power and unafraid to use it to her advantage.
There’s an oddball intrigue and a dry absurdist humour to this journey which largely transcends the uneven pacing
Rocky roads to romance, self-realization and adulthood are quirkily mapped in Take Me Somewhere Nice, a distinctive and ultimately quite promising debut by Bosnian-born Dutch writer-director Ena Sendijarevic.
Take Me Somewhere Nice has fun with the ride yet feels too derivative to leave much of an impression beyond a few vibrantly colored images.
It’s an amusing and diverting film that, with a series of ellipses and jumps, finally takes us to an unexpected world of fear and grief – and then back again, to stylised unseriousness. An engaging debut, which Sendijarević will follow up with more substance to go with the style.
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Production Company
Pupkin Film
Release Date May 21, 2020
Duration 1 h 31 m
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Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Durban International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Nederlands Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
