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Sep 11, 2017 · It may not be obvious to movie audiences that “Polina” is based on a graphic novel: Bastien Vivès’s 2011 tale of a young Russian ballerina, rendered in monochrome pen-and-ink drawings, with...
Aug 25, 2017 · Adapted by Müller from the graphic novel by Bastein Vivès, the film begins with Polina (played as a child by Veronika Zhovnytska) living in the frigid, bleak, snow-covered landscape of Russia.
Aug 7, 2017 · Shot in Russia, France, and Belgium, “Polina” follows the journey of gifted young dancer Polina — played by real-life Mariinsky Theatre Russian ballerina Anastasia Shevtsova — who has spent her...
Aug 24, 2017 · Polina is the first fiction film by the team of choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, and director Valérie Müller, it’s based on a graphic novel by Bastien Vivès which chronicles the journey a young dancer (Anastasia Shevtsova) takes from her hometown in cold Russia, to the vibrant France where she learns dance requires bigger sacrifices than ...
Aug 22, 2017 · The teenage Polina, played in a confident, winning, lived-in performance by Anastasia Shevtsova (a real-life ballerina who trained with the Mariinsky Ballet), gets a shot at the Bolshoi, but ...
- Valérie Müller, Angelin Preljocaj
Aug 24, 2017 · One snowy night, we see Polina making her way home through the woods and breaking into a spontaneous dance, leaping, bending, spinning—no longer the stiff, obedient dancer we have watched in...
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Aug 25, 2017 · Anastasia Shevtsova (a dancer with the Saint Petersburg Mariinsky Theater) plays Polina as a teenager, accepted into the legendary Bolshoi Ballet, and dating a visiting French dancer, played by Niels Schneider. The two go to a modern dance recital, and Polina is rocked to the core by the passionate intimacy expressed between the dancers onstage.
