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Film Review: ‘Where Do We Go Now?’ Advances a Path Toward Peace
19 May 2012 5:52 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Society constantly needs a reminder about itself, especially in the arena of political and religious conflict. “Where Do We Go Now?,” written and directed with creative delicacy by Nadine Labaki, provides that reminder and fashions an adult fable of how women can do their part to stop war.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Labaki uses musical numbers, extreme portrayals of Lebanese townspeople and a troupe of Russian belly dancers to highlight the absurdity of the petty bickering that lead to larger wars, mixed with the ingenuity of the matriarchy to quiet the storm. The narrative is a fascinating glimpse into another culture, but also expresses how similar we all are in such situations. The story communicates that no matter where we’re from, we do have a responsibility in keeping the peace, simply by paying attention to our role in any conflict. Choosing peace over war, even tricking people into it, seems much »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Where Do We Go Now?
19 May 2012 3:01 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Where Do We Go Now?
Directed by: Nadine Labaki
Cast: Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Leyla Hakkim, Anjo Rihane
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: May 18, 2012 (Chicago)
Plot: In hopes of saving the Muslim and Christian men from ultimately destroying each other, Amale (Labaki) spearheads a wild plan to distract and disarm the men with the help of other wives and mothers in the village.
Who’S It For?: Fans of foreign dramas, especially ones that don’t boast recognizable actors or quick pacing.
Overall
This quiet journey of Where Do We Go Now? begins with a march. The mothers and wives of the film’s center village are walking through the cemetery of their sons and husbands, who have become victims in the generation-long religious moments of strife. The graves are placed in long rows on the barren flat land. But as an outsider recognizes about the »
- Nick Allen
Interview: Director Nadine Labaki Wonders ‘Where Do We Go Now?’
17 May 2012 10:26 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The morality of conflict is brought to form in the new film, “Where Do We Go Now?,” written and directed by Nadine Labaki. This is a speculative fable about a small town in Lebanon that lives in harmony, as long as they are stay away from religious battles that plague the rest of the country. The town loves their peace, and the women there want to keep it that way.
Nadine Labaki is a native of Lebanon, and grew with the continuous warfare associated with the country. Her escape was the television screen, where she both observed the outside world and absorbed all the films she could rent. This led to a lifelong interest in making movies, and she received her degree in film studies at Beirut’s Saint-Joseph University. Her final year project, “11 Rue Pasteur,” won the 1998 best short film at the Biennale of Arabic Cinema in Paris. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Tsr Exclusive: ‘Where Do We Go Now?’ interview with actor/writer/director Nadine Labaki
17 May 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
In the film Where Do We Go Now? writer/director/actress Nadine Labaki plays Amale, a shop owner in a small Lebanese village that has random surges of violent religious tension. In hopes of saving the Muslim and Christian men from ultimately destroying each other, Amale spearheads a wild plan to distract and disarm the men with the help of other wives and mothers in the village. The film is Labaki’s second, (having previously done the acclaimed Caramel), and also marks another movie in which she chooses to act and direct alongside non-professional actors.
I sat down with Labaki to discuss her film, why she chooses to work with non-professional actors, and the impact that television had on her life when she was hiding from the war outside.
Where Do We Go Now? opens at Chicago’s Music Box theater on May 18.
How long have you been doing promotion for this film? »
- Nick Allen
'Where Do We Go Now?' Review: Political Tale Can't Figure Out If It's a Satire
11 May 2012 12:02 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Oscar prognosticators were flummoxed when “Where Do We Go Now?” won the audience award at last year’s Toronto Film Festival -- previous winners like “Slumdog Millionaire” and “The King’s Speech” had turned the prize into an Academy Awards bellwether. But this Arabic-language film (with smatterings of Russian and English) didn’t exactly fit the mass-market profile of its predecessors. Mainstream audiences heading out to see “Where Do We Go Now?” in its regular release may find themselves similarly confounded, but for entirely different reasons. Director and co-writer Nadine Labaki has set out to »
- Alonso Duralde
‘Et maintenant on va où?’ cleverly embraces humanity in a time of great strife
10 May 2012 10:16 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Et maintenant on va où? (English title: Where Do We Go Now?)
Directed by Nadine Labaki
Written by Nadine Labaki, Thomas Bidegain, Jihad Hokeily
Lebanon, France, Egypt, Italy, 2011.
Men plan for war, suit up for war and engage in warfare, that is the traditional way things develop in times of international strife leading to full on combat between nations. Are men so much for predisposed to give in to humanity’s more barbaric tendencies? Are men so much more simple minded than women so as to not realize the folly of attempting to annihilate another army made up of of humans beings who have their own families and friends back home? Whatever the cause for man’s propensity to welcome combat, the women, despite what people may think considering that they mostly stand on the sidelines, come out stronger in character. In Nadine Labaki’s most recent film, Et maintenant on va où? »
- Edgar Chaput
Movie Review: Where Do We Go Now? Mirrors the Absurdity of War
10 May 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Not to conflate filmmaking style with geopolitical tragedies, but there’s something about the wild tonal shifts of Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now that seems to mirror the inherent absurdity of the civil war in Lebanon. Of course, all sectarian battles are absurd to some extent, but the Lebanese one, which pits the country’s historically peaceful Muslim and Christian citizens against one another under the influence of regional powers like Syria, was a uniquely surreal phenomenon. The film is a multi-character study in a remote, religiously mixed village where news of fighting between Christians and Muslims comes in ever so slowly and awkwardly, via rickety radio and TV antennae. But it doesn’t need to be a news report that prompts the men to start fighting among themselves. Sometimes, it’s just a gust of wind that results in an accidentally broken cross in the church »
- Bilge Ebiri
Nadine Labaki On 'Where Do We Go Now?': "The film is not perfect. People are relating to what the film is saying."
9 May 2012 7:45 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki is back this Friday with "Where Do We Go Now?," her anticipated follow-up to her directorial debut, "Caramel,"a critical and international commercial success that brought on a wealth of buzz for the gorgeous newcomer. "Where Do We Go Now?" once again finds Labaki headlining a predominantly female ensemble of non-professional actors. But while "Caramel" was a lighthearted drama focused on the lives of a group of women who frequent the local beauty shop in Beirut and not on the troubles that plague Lebanon, Labaki's second feature a decidedly more serious affair that addresses her country's problems in an unconventional manner. The film centers on a group of women living in unnamed village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians, and isolated because of the landmines surrounding it. When news hits the village that civil war has broke out in the neighboring communities, the two sides find. »
- Nigel M Smith
Trailer For Tiff’s Top Audience Winner ‘Where Do We Go Now?’
27 March 2012 4:28 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Following the steps of Precious, Slumdog Millionaire, Eastern Promises, Amelie, American Beauty and more, the Lebanese dramedy Where Do We Go Now? took home the top prize at Toronto International Film Festival and now it is arriving in theaters. Today we’ve got a new trailer for the Sony Pictures Classics release, which paints a much lighter tone than I thought Nadine Labaki’s film had. The story of stopping a religious war by hiring Ukranian strippers to distract the men is quite amusing and I’ll certainly check this out if a get a chance. See the trailer below via Apple.
Synopsis:
Set in a remote village where the church and the mosque stand side by side, Where Do We Go Now? follows the antics of the town’s women to keep their blowhard men from starting a religious war. Women heartsick over sons, husbands and fathers lost to »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Nd/Nf 2012. Lineup: Notes + Trailers
26 February 2012 12:53 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have announced that they'll be presenting 29 features and 12 shorts in the 41st edition of New Directors/New Films, running March 21 through April 1). The series, dedicated to "the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent," opens with Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? (see the Cannes roundup). A few notes on the other features:
The Ambassador (Mads Brügger). The La Weekly's Karina Longworth suggests that Brügger is "sort of the Vice magazine version of Sacha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my top 10 list for 2010." In "his hilarious, troubling new film," Brügger poses as "a diplomat in Africa, a decadent Westerner plundering a third-world nation…. For a six-figure outlay, Brugger is promised a Liberian passport, »
Weekly Indiewire Clicks: The Best News, Reviews and Features
24 February 2012 3:25 PM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
This week on Indiewire we presented our final predictions for the Oscars & Independent Spirit Awards; we interviewed all the Best Foreign Language Feature directors; James Franco discussed "My Own Private River"; ex-Village Voice critic J. Hoberman landed a new writing gig; and we contemplated the future of small theaters. Check out all the links below for all the best new, interviews and features this week on Indiewire: News New Directors/New Films 2012 to Open with 'Where Do We Go Now?'; Will Screen Kubrick's 'Fear and Desire' Nadine Labaki's "Where Do We Go Now? will open the 2012 edition of New Directors/New Films, which announced its full lineup today. Les Film Festival 2012 is Bigger, Still Eccentric; Includes Dolly Parton, Dustin Lance Black and Susan Sarandon The Les Film Festival, which will run March 6-18 in Manhattan, has announced its 2012 lineup with films starring Dolly Parton, Dustin Lance Black, »
- Aaron Bogert
New Directors/New Films Announces 2012 Lineup
23 February 2012 1:46 PM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art have announced the lineup for their annual New Directors/New Films festival, running March 21–April 1 in New York City.
This year’s festival opens with Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now, which premiered last year at Cannes and is being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. Also screening this year are several Sundance alums, including Gareth Huw Evans’s The Raid, Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st, David Hamel’s How to Survive a Plague, and Mads Brugger’s The Ambassador.
The full lineup is below. For information on how to buy tickets, visit the festival’s official website.
The full lineup:
The Ambassador (Ambassadøren) (2011) 94min
Directed by Mads Brügger
Country: Denmark
The consummate agent-provocateur–his method fittingly described as “Graham Greene meets Borat”–Brügger (The Red Chapel, Ndnf »
- Dan Schoenbrun
New Directors/New Films 2012 Opens With 'Where Do We Go Now,' Adds Horror, Family, Kubrick to Full Line-Up
23 February 2012 11:58 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art have unveiled the 2012 lineup for the 41st New Directors/New Films festival, running March 21–April 1. The festival will showcase 29 features and 12 shorts, hailing from 28 countries. Nd/Nf 20012 kicks off with Nadine Labaki's "Where Do We Go Now," which premiered at Cannes before going on to win audience awards at Toronto and San Sebastian fests. This year, says MoMA's Rajendra Roy, the program has broadened the definition of a 'New Directors film' from discovery to include a revival (Stanley Kubrick's 1953 classic "Fear and Desire") a midnight movie (Sony PIctures'Classic's "The Raid") and a family film (animated "The Rabbi's Cat"). Three outstanding Sundance docs are must-sees: David Hamel's "How to Survive a Plague," about activists' quest to fight AIDs; Mads Brugger's outrageous "The Ambassador" and »
- Anne Thompson & Sophia Savage
New Directors/New Films 2012 to Open with 'Where Do We Go Now?'; Will Screen Kubrick's 'Fear and Desire'
23 February 2012 10:24 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Nadine Labaki's "Where Do We Go Now? will open the 2012 edition of New Directors/New Films, which announced its full lineup today. The 41st edition of the festival runs March 21-April 1. Nd/Nf will also include a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1953 first feature, "Fear and Desire," as well as the festival's first-ever 3D feature, "The Rabbi's Cat," and its first-ever late-night screening with Gareth Huw Evans’ Indonesian martial-arts thriller "The Raid." Nd/Nf will offer 29 features (24 narrative, five documentaries) and 12 short films from 28 countries. Not included in that number is a surprise screening that will serve as the closing night selection. The film will not be announced in advance of its screening that evening. “While New Directors/New Films by design is about discovery, this year's films broaden the definition of a 'New Directors film' to include; a revival, a »
- Dana Harris
Dallas International Film Fest Announces 15 Titles: 'Darling Companion,' 'Luv,' 'Brooklyn Brothers'; Animation Honors for Glen Keane
15 February 2012 10:40 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The Dallas International Film Festival announced its first fifteen films for the 2012 festival, which runs April 12-22. At this sixth edition of the festival (which will showcase nearly 180 films), Narrative Feature and Documentary competition films will compete for $10,000 cash prizes, while Environmental Visions category fills will be up for a $10,000 prize from Whole Foods and the Embrey Family Foundation will give a $10,000 Silver Heart Award to a film that fights injustice and/or ignites social change. The titles include Nadine Labaki's "Where Do We Go Now?", Sheldon Candis's "Luv," Ryan O'Nan's "The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best," Lawrence Kasdan's "Darling Companion" Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke's "Escpae Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare" and Takashi Shimizu's "Tormened. The Atomic States of America." (The complete list of titles and details are below.) »
Sundance 2012: Where Do We Go Now? Review
23 January 2012 2:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
As I lined up for the press screening of Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? I had absolutely no idea what to expect. The official Sundance programming guide described it as an emotionally charged film about religious differences in a small town in Lebanon and, oh yeah, did mention it’s also a musical?
Never before had I seen a Lebanese film let alone one that was a musical, so in essence it is very likely that the novelty of it all that made me line up for this film in the first place. Plus religion is almost always a good hot button issue for films, so I figured it would at least prove to be an interesting point of conversation on the bus ride back to my car.
The plot of the film revolves around a small Lebanese town that has been completely divided by both the »
- Ty Cooper
Oscar Shortlist Doesn't Include Angelina Jolie Or Christian Bale
19 January 2012 7:13 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Sorry Angelina Jolie and Christian Bale. You're not on the list.
The Academy just refuses to show American stars the love — at least when it comes to the foreign language Oscar shortlist anyway.
Despite some legit contenders who hail from Hollywood this year, it's looking like those little gold men are being reserved for films nobody's heard of without Tinseltown star power attached.
Topping the list of potential nominees are Asghar Farhadi's Critics' Choice and Golden Globe-winning drama "A Separation" (Iran), Agnieszka Holland's Holocaust drama "In Darkness" (Poland), Joseph Cedar's Talmudic study "Footnote" (Israel), Philippe Falardeau's dramedy "Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada) and Wim Wenders' 3-D dance documentary "Pina" (Germany).
Other titles that made the cut are Michael R. Roskam's crime-drama "Bullhead" (Belgium), Ole Christian Madsen's comedy "SuperClasico" (Denmark), Roschdy Zem's social-conscience piece "Omar Killed Me" (Morocco) and Wei Te-sheng's epic "Warriors of »
- Elizabeth Durand
Where Do We Go Now? (Et maintenant, on va où?) movie clips and images
18 January 2012 10:21 PM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Clips and images from Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? The drama/comedy scripted by helmer Labaki alongside Rodney Al Haddid, Jihad Hojeily, Sam Mounier and Thomas Bidegain, can be seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Pic was the winner of the People's Choice Award at last year's Toronto Internatinal Film Festival, and also stars Labaki along with Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Yvonne Maalouf, Antoinette Noufaily and Julian Farhat Set in a remote village where the church and the mosque stand side by side, Where Do We Go Now? follows the antics of the town's women to keep their blowhard men from starting a religious war. Women heartsick over sons, husbands and fathers lost to previous flare-ups unite to distract their men with clever ruses, from faking a miracle to hiring a troop of Ukrainian strippers »
Where Do We Go Now? (Et maintenant, on va où?) movie clips and images
18 January 2012 10:21 PM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Clips and images from Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? The drama/comedy scripted by helmer Labaki alongside Rodney Al Haddid, Jihad Hojeily, Sam Mounier and Thomas Bidegain, can be seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Pic was the winner of the People's Choice Award at last year's Toronto Internatinal Film Festival, and also stars Labaki along with Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Yvonne Maalouf, Antoinette Noufaily and Julian Farhat Set in a remote village where the church and the mosque stand side by side, Where Do We Go Now? follows the antics of the town's women to keep their blowhard men from starting a religious war. Women heartsick over sons, husbands and fathers lost to previous flare-ups unite to distract their men with clever ruses, from faking a miracle to hiring a troop of Ukrainian strippers »
Foreign Oscar Shortlist Down To Nine
18 January 2012 9:47 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced its shortlist for the year's best foreign language film award at the upcoming Oscars, a list that is already inciting outrage not just for its inclusions but its surprising omissions.
Those that have reached this semi-final round ahead of the five final nominees to be announced on Tuesday include:
Asghar Farhadi's Golden Globe-winning drama "A Separation" (Iran)
Agnieszka Holland’s sewer-set Holocaust drama "In Darkness" (Poland)
Joseph Cedar's Talmudic dueling academics tale "Footnote" (Israel)
Philippe Falardeau’s dramedy "Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada)
Wim Wenders’ 3D dance documentary "Pina" (Germany)
Michael R. Roskam's crime-drama "Bullhead" (Belgium)
Ole Christian Madsen's light comedy "SuperClasico" (Denmark)
Roschdy Zem's drama "Omar Killed Me "(Morocco)
Wei Te-sheng's 2-part epic "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale" (Taiwan)
As only one film per country can be submitted, certain films were already ruled ineligible »
- Garth Franklin
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