Here (2012)

77% of critics liked it
(13 reviews)
54% of users liked it
(3,197 ratings)

Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote countryside. As their trip comes to an end, the two must… More Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote countryside. As their trip comes to an end, the two must decide where to go from Here. -- (C) Strand Releasing

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Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 2 hr.
Directed By: Braden King
Genres: Drama

In Theaters: Apr 13, 2012 Limited
Studio: Strand Releasing

Critic Reviews

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
[It] doesn't offer up a ton of narrative surprises, but there is plenty going on the screen to keep you engaged - and visually stimulated.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
You must be willing to give yourself to Braden King's debut feature, a slow, meandering and sumptuously photographed road trip combined with an intimate love story. I gave, and I got. A lot.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
"Here" seems motivated by a tone of searching and yearning, not of finding a single way. As Foster's character says at one point, "Getting lost was the goal."
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
It becomes highly affecting, concerned both with the limits of mapping a landscape and with lovers' difficulties in navigating each other.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
The trains of thought stirred up by the film's contemplation of what is here and what is there - and where you are - are endless and stimulating. And the movie is embellished with spectacularly beautiful, enigmatic bursts of abstract imagery.
Karina Longworth, Village Voice
The dreamy, feverish beauty of these sequences just barely balances out the pretension of the exposition.
Frank Lovece, Film Journal International
Languid road movie, punctuated by ponderous abstract interludes, about a young American mapmaker in Armenia who meets a prodigal woman photographer. A promising filmmaker needs to his lose art-school baby fat.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
The unstructured, come-what-may quality of a road movie is part of its appeal, but it can be a pitfall, too, when all that spontaneity starts to look more like lollygagging.
David Fear, Time Out New York
You'd follow these two anywhere-even down a long, winding and perilously close-to-pointless road.
Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine
While everything here is mostly unspoken, and the film itself hints at a broader set of concerns than simply two lost souls meeting on foreign ground, Here too often feels like a jumble of ideas that don't quite cohere.
David D'Arcy, Screen International
In HERE, the landscape doesn't become a character, as the boilerplate cliché would have it, but the brief-encounter romance becomes a proto-documentary.
Ray Greene, Boxoffice Magazine
One of those movies so fully achieved it restores your faith in the cinema.