Polina (film)
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Distributed by | UGC Distribution |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | France |
Languages | French Russian |
Budget | $4 million[1] |
Box office | $737,000[2] |
Polina (
Plot
As a child Polina auditions for ballet school and is accepted. She catches the eye of the head teacher and choreographer, Bojinski, who is particularly hard on her because he senses her talent. However she continuously struggles with the rigidity of training for ballet and her own passion for dance.
Polina is accepted into the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow which for years had been the dream of her teachers and family. However, after witnessing a different type of dance at a festival, Polina decides to go to Aix-en-Provence and audition for a modern dance school there alongside her boyfriend, Adrien. They are both accepted though she is warned that modern dance is very different from the classical training she is used to. Polina struggles with the choreography and is criticized for focusing on her work to the exclusion of everything else. During a rehearsal she injures her ankle and is quickly replaced by her understudy, Sonia, who begins an affair with Adrien. When Polina heals she asks for her role in the show back, but the choreographer, Liria, tells her she is not emotionally ready. Frustrated, Polina leaves the company.
Polina ends up in
Polina's father dies and she goes to Moscow where her mother tells her that her father always wanted her to be a great dancer. Polina returns to Antwerpen where she and Karl perform their piece for a programmer who books them into the Montpellier Festival.
Cast
- Anastasia Shevtsova as Polina
- Veronika Zhovnytska as young Polina
- Juliette Binoche as Liria Elsaj
- Aleksei Guskov as Bojinski
- Jérémie Bélingard as Karl
- Niels Schneider as Adrien
- Sergio Díaz as Sergio
- Miglen Mirtchev as Anton
- Kseniya Kutepova as Natalia
- Ambroise Divaret as Alex
- Oriana Jimenez as Svetlana
References
- ^ "Polina, danser sa vie". JP's Box-Office.
- ^ "Polina, danser sa vie".
- Screendaily. 26 August 2016.
- ^ "Polina: Hitting your stride". Cineuropa. 4 September 2016.
External links
- Polina at IMDb