Where Do We Go Now? Review

★★★★★

Release Date: May 11, 2012

Director: Nadine Labaki

Producers: Nadine Labaki, Anne- Dominque Toussaint 

Main Cast: Nadine Labaki, Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Julian Farhat

Where Do We Go Now? is a Lebanese film following this small isolated village occupied with both Muslims and Christians during the civil war. The women in the village do what they can to prevent the news of the war getting to the men in the village. They go as far to bring Ukrainian dancers in order to keep the men distracted and occupied. The film is full of different emotions, and will have you crying one second, and laughing the next. Throughout the film religion is highly spotlighted, singing a light on the anger they have toward each other. 

I did not have the highest of expectations for this film, as it beige a musical. But I was Pleasantly surprised with this film. I found the usage of humor to be so comforting, and really lighthearted in the midst of such a touchy subject. The jokes made around the Ukrainian dancers in particular were extremely funny to me. I found the usage of Nissam's death to bring a lot of depth into the storyline, and helped with the emotions that were being portrayed. Although, I do think they could have used his death a little more, perhaps go into more detail or just prolong the topic of his death more greatly it would have elevated the sadness the characters and the audience were feeling. Out of 13,020 IMDb voters the film was given an overall 7.4/10. 18% of those voters gave Where Do We Go Now it's highest rating of a 10/10 and 2.1% gave the film it's lowest rating of a 1/10. I was a bit surprised with this overall rating because I thought surely it would have been given a 9/10 out of 13 thousand people. To the voters who gave the film anything other than a 10/10, I would have to say I respectfully disagree. I stick with my 5/5 star rating.