"Visually-stunning! ....showcases how tourism can have an effect on a country and its local people."
- Charles Barfield, The Playlist
"A wry and at times uproarious ethnographic work…revelatory!”
- Michael Sicinski, Film Comment
"Compelling! ...Through a series of consistent wide shots, the camera never moving, to a sound tableau that picks up the most subtle touristic rustling…Onlookers not only grabs your gaze almost subconsciously, but it also elicits nostalgia and self-reflection of one’s own such experiences."
- Steve Rickinson, Modern Times Review
“If you’re looking for a new kind of travel film, this is for you."
- Benjamin Franz, FILM THREAT
95 AND 6 TO GO
"The film is in many ways a mutually sombre homecoming; the proverbial return to care for one’s elders becomes an active accounting of the past and provokes an unforeseen source of humble creativity."
- Jay Kuehner, Cinema Scope
"Among other things, the film explores the ethics of intensely intimate filmmaking."
- Patricia Aufderheide, International Documentary Association
"Moving... profound."
- Jose Solis, StageBuddy.com
"Delightful... profound... impossible to walk away from the film without admiration."
- Michael Lieberman, Artblog
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Where Are You Taking Me?
"An unusual, visually rich visit to the nation... Some scenes appear as artfully composed as a painting (and some reminiscent of famed painters). But these are found moments, and they have movement and character as well as poetry."
- David DeWitt, The New York Times
"Beautifully meditative... an uplifting observational docu that plays on seeing and being seen."
- Jay Weissberg, Variety
Grade: A
"Takesue has a wonderful eye for human portraiture, and for landscape portraiture, that is arresting without being static. She captures, as she intended, the lyricism of the everyday."
- Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor
Critic's Pick!
"Complex... In her impressive documentary feature debut, Kimi Takesue interrogates the outsider's gaze while still offering an expansive, wide-angle view of contemporary Uganda."
- Eric Hynes, Time Out New York
"Extraordinary postwar Uganda dream flight.. Takesue [has an] unnerving ability to zoom with uncanny focus into (and out of) individual perspectives."
- Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice
4.5 out of 5 stars
"An expressionist snapshot of a fractured country... fascinatingly vibrant."
- Jesse Cataldo, Spectrum Culture
"Precisely observed, gracefully contemplative, and gently self-reflective. Highly recommended."
- Educational Media Reviews
10 stars out of 10
"Simultaneously contemplative and anticipatory... How are filmmakers responsible as they transport and share such stories? [How] are viewers responsible to what they see? Beautifully, achingly, Where Are You Taking Me? asks these questions and more."
- Cynthia Fuchs, PopMatters
Looking for Adventure
"The film presents not just Peru as the tourists see it, but also a Peruvian identity shaped in collaboration with tourists. The result is a place where tourism helps build daily life."
- Aaron Cutler, Museum of the Moving Image
Interviews & Essays
FILMMAKER Magazine Interviews Kimi: “We Need Work That is Impossible to Describe”
The Moveable Fest Interviews Kimi: “The Wandering Eye in ‘Onlookers’”
The Park Record Interviews Kimi: “the dynamics and rhythm of travel”