A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.
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- TriviaAnastasia Shevtsova is a talented dancer: she was part of the renowned Vaganova Academy in Saint Petersburg before shooting the movie, and was afterwards admitted in the famous Mariinsky ballet, also in Saint Petersburg. Originally from a classical background, she practiced modern dance for as long as six months for the movie.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Au fil des mots: Episode dated 14 November 2016 (2016)
- SoundtracksConcerto for violin and orchestra
Music by Philip Glass
Violin by Adele Anthony
Ulster Orchestra
Conducted by T. Yuada
Featured review
Young Russian ballet dancer seeks to find her true passion.
This is not a movie I would normally seek out, a fictional story of a young dancer coming of age, dialog in Russian and French with English subtitles. But my public library just added this title and there were no requests yet. So I got the DVD, I watched it, I enjoyed it.
In the DVD extras we learn that the search for the lead dancer and actress involved looking at literally hundreds of young ballet dancers. They had to be an accomplished dancer, they had to be able to act believably, they had to be able to speak French. In the end Anastasia Shevtsova, still a teenager and a ballet student in Russia, was picked to play Polina.
It is her first feature film and she is remarkably good in the role, which requires several successive character transitions. First she has to be a student for the Bolshoi, then a seeker of modern dance in France, then a budding choreographer. The crux of the story is her desire to dance, a harder worker you will not find, but eventually she realizes she is not happy just trying to perfectly perform choreography invented by someone else. She wants to express herself in improvisational dance and choreography.
Excellent movie.
In the DVD extras we learn that the search for the lead dancer and actress involved looking at literally hundreds of young ballet dancers. They had to be an accomplished dancer, they had to be able to act believably, they had to be able to speak French. In the end Anastasia Shevtsova, still a teenager and a ballet student in Russia, was picked to play Polina.
It is her first feature film and she is remarkably good in the role, which requires several successive character transitions. First she has to be a student for the Bolshoi, then a seeker of modern dance in France, then a budding choreographer. The crux of the story is her desire to dance, a harder worker you will not find, but eventually she realizes she is not happy just trying to perfectly perform choreography invented by someone else. She wants to express herself in improvisational dance and choreography.
Excellent movie.
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- Jun 29, 2018
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- Also known as
- Polina, danser sa vie
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $165,203
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,588
- Aug 27, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $1,000,474
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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