Take Me Somewhere Nice

Name: Take Me Somewhere Nice
Genre: Drama
Released: May 21, 2020
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Alena Dzebo, Ali Zijlstra, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Ernad Prnjavorac, Ivana Vojinovic

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MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): May 21, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alena Dzebo, Ali Zijlstra, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Ernad Prnjavorac, Ivana Vojinovic, Jasna Djuricic, Lazar Dragojevic, Mario Knezovic, Sanja Buric, Sara Luna Zoric

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.

Director: Ena Sendijarevic

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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The Playlist

May 21, 2020

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. Read full review

The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

May 21, 2020

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. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Simran Hans

May 23, 2020

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. Read full review

Wendy Ide

May 21, 2020

There’s an oddball intrigue and a dry absurdist humour to this journey which largely transcends the uneven pacing Read full review

Neil Young

May 21, 2020

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. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

May 21, 2020

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. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 21, 2020

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. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Jul 5, 2021

This largely inconsequential road trip tale about a Dutch-born Bosnian adolescent who returns to her homeland to visit her hospitalized father seems to be grasping for something to say but never manages to express what it's really going for. Director Ena Sendijarevic's debut feature combinesThis largely inconsequential road trip tale about a Dutch-born Bosnian adolescent who returns to her homeland to visit her hospitalized father seems to be grasping for something to say but never manages to express what it's really going for. Director Ena Sendijarevic's debut feature combines part coming of age story, part quirky comedy, part character study and part heritage discovery set against the backdrop of a land that's still recovering from the hostility of a conflict that left it angry, fearful and scarred. Unfortunately, that mix doesn't blend well, especially with its uneven pacing, jarring changes in mood, and developments that aren't fully explained or seemingly emerge from out of nowhere. The final act in particular unfolds aimlessly, as if it were being made up as the filmmaker went along, unsure how to wrap up the story. The rudiments of a gifted new talent are present here, but their assemblage in this vehicle largely miss the mark. Here's hoping the next effort is a better one.… Expand

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