Take Me Somewhere Nice
Holiday Special: four bad trip classics for the summer season
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1h 31m
Directed by Ena Sendijarević • 2019 • Bosnia and Herzegovina/Netherlands
Dutch-Bosnian director Ena Sendijarević concocts a summery but unsentimental coming-of-age drama out of the fault lines between Western and Eastern Europe in this award-winning feature. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Alma (Sara Luna Zorić) is on the verge of adulthood when she leaves her mother’s home to visit her estranged and ailing father in Bosnia. Accompanied by her cousins Emir (Ernad Prnjavorac) and his best friend Denis (Lazar Dragojević), Alma’s trip across this alien but familiar country will prove to be a journey to the heart of her own conflicted identity. With hints of American masters like Jim Jarmusch and Wes Anderson in its candy-coloured palette and a sharply critical take on sexuality and diaspora politics, this is a striking debut.
TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE
Written and directed by Ena Sendijarević
Cinematography by Emo Weemhoff
Music by Ella van der Woude
Starring: Sara Luna Zorić, Lazar Dragojević, Ernad Prnjavorac
In Bosnian and Dutch with English subtitles
Winner of Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film at the Sarajevo International Film Festival 2019.
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