Oscilloscope
Laboratories will be opening the New Year with DVD and Blu-ray editions of
French filmmakers Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj’s film adaptation of Bastien
Vivès’ graphic novel, Polina.
The
street date will be Jan. 9, which yields an ARR of 137 days … box office
receipts for the film’s arthouse theatrical run currently stand at $165,203.
Polina
(Anastasia Shevtsova) is a dancer. A
dancer with all of the techniques learned in a lifetime of preparting for the
Bolshoi Ballet. She is a beauty with
haunting eyes, but she lacks one important thing … the spark; the soul of a
dancer. Teach a cyborg développés,
arabesques and pirouettes and you have a dancer without the soul of a
dancer. Polina is such a dancer,
technically brilliant, but programmed “in body” to be so, but not in spirit.
We see
her first as a child, as then as a teenager, she is now ready to fulfill her
parent’s dreams of being with the Bolshoi Ballet. And then she meets a visiting French dancer
by the name of Adrien (Niels Schneider), and on a simple “dancer” date — they
don’t go to a movie or out to dinner
— the pair instead attend a
recital of modern dance intrepation and Polina’s world comes unglued.
In a
stunning moment of clarity, she abandons Mother Russia and the Bolshoi and
moves with Adrien to Paris, where she meets Liria (Juliette Binoche), a dance
instructor who opens Polina’s eyes to dance as a living thing!
Polina
is presented in French, with some Russian, and English subtitles. As a bonus feature it includes a
behind-the-scenes making of featurette.
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