She eschewed pretty locations or even studios in favor of shooting people in their own environments.
For the American viewer the minor pleasures of the knockabout comedy and the pretty locations (Mauritius stands in for the Australian Gold Coast, where Aaliya escapes from the pressures of home and love) may not completely block out the gender inequities of the screenplay, by Renuka Kunzru, and the direction, by Danish Aslam.
Three hours north of the capital and in one of Laos's prettiest locations, I remember it as a place where gap-year kids rode the Song River on tractor inner tubes, partied on rave platforms and smoked enough dope to wake up Hendrix.
Their new mapping algorithm determines the prettiest locations within a given area and plots the most pleasant course to a pedestrian's destination.
"If you want the impact of a record-breaking crowd, and in a facility that is located in a pretty central location — you know it's pretty easy to get to Detroit.
"We are in a pretty nice location for the winter and for the warm seasons".
"For a Patagonia store, this is a pretty different location," said Lu Setnicka, a spokeswoman for the company, which is based in Ventura, Calif.
It's a pretty dramatic location, between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, and the carousel will be sheltered in a pretty ritzy pavilion, a $9 million transparent acrylic jewel box by the French architect Jean Nouvel.
Both countries would be sitting pretty if location and resources were all that mattered.
When the service launched, I spoke with its team, and they told me about some pretty interesting location technology it was building, which doesn't tax your phone's battery like other apps.
