Where Do We Go Now? (2012)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 33
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Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 16
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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. -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics
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Cast
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Claude Moussawbaa
Takla -
Layla Hakim
Afaf -
Nadine Labaki
Amale -
Yvonne Maalouf
Yvonne -
Antoinette Noufaily
Saydeh -
Julien Farhart
Rabih -
Ali Haidar
Roukoz -
Kevin Abboud
Nassim -
Petra Saghbini
Rita -
Mostafa Al Sakka
Hammoudi -
Sasseen Kawzally
Issam -
Caroline Labaki
Aida -
Anjo Rihane
Fatmeh -
Mohammad Akil
Abou Ahmad -
Khalil Bou Khalil
Maire -
Samir Awad
Pretre -
Ziad Abou Absi
Cheikh -
Adel Karam
Bus Driver -
Oxana Chihane
Katia -
Anneta Bousaleh
Svetlana -
Olga Yerofyeyeva
Anna -
Yulia Maroun
Tatiana -
Oksana Beloglazova
Olga -
Fouad Yammine
Boutros -
Sami Khorjieh
Abou Ali -
Gisele Smeden
Gisele -
Georges Khoury
Youssef -
Mounzer Baalbaki
Sassine -
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All Critics (73) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (33) | DVD (2)
This spirited troupe of women ... makes us citizens of the village, invested in their joys and fears. We grieve with them, under that burning sun, and hope with them for a lasting peace.
Top Critic"Where Do We Go Now?" is more interesting than satisfying.
This is energetic, bursting with sincerity, yet also frustrating and disappointing.
It is, at times, a charming reprieve from the usually dour cinematic explorations of Middle Eastern conflicts.
Labaki never claimed to be Noël Coward, but the facile comedy leads to a dilution of the message she strives so strenuously to make.
Time passes with a sense that nothing is really happening, until suddenly too much happens all at once.
Drugs, exotic dancers, dodgy deities. This certainly isn't your usual po-faced, worthy Middle Eastern tale.
Part religiopolitical satire, part smalltown sitcom, with a hint of romance, Where Do We Go Now? is pleasingly populated with "characters" and light farce that occasionally breaks out into a movie musical.
... a mess, but a cheerful one.
It's a "what if" story that's hopeful but doesn't ring true.
The movie is set in a remote Lebanese village, but it's all over the map in terms of content and style. The elements never cohere, resulting in a film more admirable for its pacifist yearnings than for its execution.
Even the title holds a surprise.
Sometimes [Labaki] bites off more than she can chew, and the story's anti-war themes turn as heavy-handed and ponderous as the title question suggests.
Although the tone is often lighthearted, the subject matter between Christians and Muslims is more profound.
Labaki's use of abrupt tonal shifts can be jarring, but her narrative is ambitious and anything but typical.
Given recent developments in Egypt, the questions posed by this Arab Spring-themed musical comedy-drama from Lebanon could not feel more apt.
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Foreign Titles
- Wer weiß, wohin? (DE)
- Where Do We Go Now? (Et maintenant, on va ou?) (UK)
