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Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina · 2019
1h 31m
Director Ena Sendijarević
Starring Sara Luna Zoric, Lazar Dragojević, Ernad Prnjavorac, Sanja Burić
Genre Drama
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Alma leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands and travels to her native Bosnia to visit the father she’s never met. She navigates the newfound challenges of adulthood while remaining youthfully headstrong, and tries to learn to embrace the dichotomies that have complicated her identity for her entire life.
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.
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.
The Film Stage by Leonardo Goi
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.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
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.
From beneath defensive layers of distanced comic despair emerges a sincere story about a young woman’s emotional reconciliation with her troubled place of origin.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
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.
The Observer (UK) by Simran Hans
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
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