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Polina

Polina, danser sa vie

2016

Angelin Preljocaj, Valérie Müller

Anastasia Shevtsova, Juliette Binoche, Veronika Zhovnytska, Niels Schneider ...

6.1

93

Drama Polina, a young gifted Bolshoi ballerina, falls in love with a French dancer who introduces her to contemporary dance and leads her to travel the world.

	Media	Author	Review
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Impeccable technique, but where's the emotion? (...) A somewhat obliquely and messily told story (...) There’s some good use of handheld cinematography"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The film is intriguing on the surface, but the scenes have no interior hum, because they haven’t been conceived psychologically."
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Played in a confident, winning, lived-in performance by Anastasia Shevtsova (...) The point of Polina, and this movie, is that her dancing is her being."
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"There’s an intensity and authenticity to Polina’s unrehearsed movements (...) Shevtsova delivers a performance that feels wonderfully unforced (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Elizabeth Zimmer Village Voice	"A lot of star power, and the resources of three countries, went into the making of this subtitled dance-world weepie."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is frustratingly inert dramatically (...) The film takes us on a slightly perfunctory series of narrative steps (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		David Stratton The Australian	"Visually the film is uneven (...) The lengthy scenes of training, rehearsing and performing will be a delight for lovers of ballet, who will doubtless forgive the narrative lapses and occasional cliches (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"I was thrilled to these beautifully shot dance scenes (...) Dance is not about the results. It is about the process. 'Polina' is precious for that aspect alone (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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