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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.

	Author	Review
United States	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"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The film is intriguing on the surface, but the scenes have no interior hum, because they haven’t been conceived psychologically."	NEU
United States	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."	POS
United States	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)"	POS
United States	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."	NEU
United Kingdom	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)"	NEG
Australia	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)"	NEU
United States	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)"	POS

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