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Where Is Where?(Missä on missä?)

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Finland · 2009
55m
Director Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Starring Kati Outinen, Tommi Korpela, Alaeddin Alaeddine, Taha Muhammad Rguibi
Genre Drama

Where is Where? is an experimental film that quarters the screen in order to have four different scenes play simultaneously. It's a meditation on the Algerian war that culminates in a brutal killing.

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Village Voice by

Ultimately, the film attempts to confront its vague ideas with a self-contained bit of narrative, whose neat rendering clashes with, but fails to make sense of, the messiness of what came before.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Anyone looking for some idiosyncratic, visually stimulating entertainment this week could do worse than Where Is Where?, an intriguing narrative experiment by the Finnish artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila.