Take Me Somewhere Nice
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Take Me Somewhere Nice
Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina • 2019It’s one debacle after another for Alma (newcomer Sara Luna Zorić). When her long-estranged father is hospitalized in his native Bosnia, a not-quite-headstrong young woman leaves her home in The Netherlands to visit him. When she lands at the airport with a few Bosnian phrases and a new dress, her distracted older cousin Emir neglects to drive her to the hospital, preferring to hang out with his buddy Denis, “who has a girlfriend, so don’t even think about it.”
After dyeing her hair and outlasting her patience, she hits the road on her own, quickly losing her luggage, her money, and her mooring. Along a bizarre chain of events and interactions with a cast of road-weary characters, Alma faces disappointment after disappointment with devil-may-care detachment and a newfound maturity.
In its breathless series of hotels, cars, buses, and waiting rooms, Take Me Somewhere Nice captures the dreary, fish-out-of-water isolation of the unfamiliar highway. An endearing update of Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-Vous d’Anna, fused with the jazzy cynicism of Wim Wenders’ and Jim Jarmusch’s 70’s road movies, and the stark, sunlit despair of a David Hockney painting.
Recipient of the Special Jury Prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Take Me Somewhere Nice is the unpredictable, neon-tinted feature debut for Ena Sendijarević, a Bosnian-born refugee raised in Holland who is now one of Dutch cinema’s fastest rising talents. Her film’s breezy wit and pastel color palette disguise dark truths about national identity, gender, and coming-of-age, making it the first essential road movie about the TikTok generation.
Written & Directed by: Ena Sendijarević
Starring: Sara Luna Zorić, Ernad Prnjavorac, Lazar Dragojević
Run time: 91 minutes
Language: Bosnian, Dutch, English
Subtitles: English
Color: Color
Format: 1.33:1
Sound: 5.1
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Analog Pizza & Video Chicago, IL • Baxter Avenue Theatres Louisville, KY • Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival of New York New York, NY • Brattle Theatre Cambridge, MA • Chicago European Union Film Festival Chicago, IL • Chicago Festival of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Chicago, IL • Cine Athens Athens, GA • Cinema Lamont Detroit, MI • Cleveland Cinematheque Cleveland, OH • Darkside Cinema Corvallis, OR • Facets Chicago, IL • Grand Illusion Cinema Seattle, WA • Harris Theater Chicago, IL • Jacob Burns Film Center Pleasantville, NY • Kiggins Theatre Vancouver, WA • Laemmle Theatres Los Angeles, CA • Lightbox Film Center Philadelphia, PA • Lumiere Cinema Beverly Hills, CA • Metrograph New York, NY • Mill Valley International Film Festival San Rafael, CA • Minneapolis Film Society Minneapolis, MN • Montclair Film Montclair, NJ • Music Box Theatre Chicago, IL • New Plaza Cinema New York, NY • Parkway Theatre Baltimore, MD • Phoenix Film Festival Phoenix, AZ • Row House Cinema Pittsburgh, PA • Salem Cinema Salem, OR • Scarecrow Video Seattle, WA • SIE FilmCenter Denver, CO • Syndicated Brooklyn, NY • The Future Of Film Is Female Brooklyn, NY • Varsity Theatre Davis, CA • Vermont International Film Festival Burlington, VT • Webster University Film Series Saint Louis, MO
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