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Olga

Submissions for Best International Feature (Academy Awards 2022)

Olga

2021

Elie Grappe

Anastasiia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio, Théa Brogli ...

6.2

332

Drama A 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast exiled in Switzerland, who is working to secure a place at the country's National Sports Center. When the Euromaiden revolt breaks out in the country, anxieties rise as his family gets involved.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A compelling psychological portrait of a dedicated young athlete on the cusp of great success (...) Lucie Baudinaud’s camerawork is smartly effective"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is a film whose ideas and emotions have come into a fierce new focus (...) In its unexpected way, this film speaks to the new agony of banishment now being felt by millions of Ukrainians (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"This tiny swiss sports drama illuminates what ukrainians are going through (...) An intense portrait of personal obsession"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"'Olga' captures, with an excellent sense of atmosphere, the paradoxes of adolescents perfecting a total control over their emotions even as they are boiling inside them"	POS
United States	Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"Budiashkina potently portrays this internal war, her character’s rage and helplessness threatening to pull her underwater and refuse to let her up for air"	POS

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