Take Me Somewhere Nice review – quirky arthouse road movie - MW

The title, instantly aimless and timid, almost incredibly captivating, gives a sense of part of this mood drama. It is an elegantly made movie in a style that I can only call the Euro-arthouse antics. Directed by Ena Sendijarević, 33, made her debut with deadly loans from Suleiman and Jarmusch. It's a dry dark dark comedy clearly based on elements from her own background: like her protagonist, Sendijarević was raised in the Netherlands, but born in Bosnia, which her parents had flee during the 90s war. You are wondering about the little quirky reality that must lie behind the story.

Alma (Sara Luna Zorić) is a teenager living in the Netherlands with her mother, but heard that her father - who ran out when they were a child - is now seriously ill in Bosnia. Alma conceived of wanting to meet him for the first and last time. Her mother repaired her a place out there with her gangster cousin, a little gangster, Emirate (Ernad Prnjavorac), and when she arrived, the emir's friend Denis (Lazar Dragojević) ) is very passionate about Alma, who does a lot of sunbathing in her bikini or underwear, and people enjoy the movie with a sensual, sensual tangle.



Sendijarević displays a number of arch-style film styles: characters tend to speak only after pausing a bit artificially while keeping that person's eye on them; they will often be photographed in strange compositions, rectum, head and face occupy the lower half of the screen with lots of dead space on the head. And most of the time there is a bright, tough sunlight, hints of something threatening or even violent just shoot out.

It's an interesting and different movie, with a series of ellipses and small jumps, that finally takes us to an unexpected world of fear and grief - and then back again, to stylized anomalies. An exciting launch, which Sendijarević will follow with more qualities to match the style.