{"id":1954,"date":"2017-09-01T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/09\/01\/adapting-polina-we-wanted-to-make-a-film-on-dance-that-itself-dances\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:11:00","slug":"adapting-polina-we-wanted-to-make-a-film-on-dance-that-itself-dances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/09\/01\/adapting-polina-we-wanted-to-make-a-film-on-dance-that-itself-dances\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting &#8216;Polina&#8217;: &#8216;We Wanted to Make a Film on Dance That Itself Dances&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/08\/director-and-screenwriter-valerie-muller-adapting-polina\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/polina.jpg?itok=qjQFez0X\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nDiscover how the filmmakers transformed the pages of the graphic novel with movement to explore the journey of a dancer&#8217;s life.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nLike the spare, elegant graphic novel by Bastien Viv\u00e8s on which it is based, <em>Polina<\/em>, the new film from Val\u00e9rie M\u00fcller and Angelin Preljocaj, has an arresting immediacy about it from the start. The film tells the story of a girl (played by Anastasia Shevtsova, herself a dancer with the Russian Mariinsky Theater) who, after studying with a rather repressive ballet teacher as a child, breaks away to study under different masters\u2014most notably Liria, a modern dance choreographer based in Aix-en-Provence, played here with understated force by Juliette Binoche.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAs it turns out, Polina&#8217;s most important master is herself, as the film shows her gradual trajectory from a confident student into a person who guides other dancers. The route she take to get to that point is not necessarily smooth, and Polina finds herself in numerous locales and circumstances before her &#8220;arrival&#8221;; at times, the film reads like a distant descendant of Agnes Varda&#8217;s <em>Vagabond. <\/em>&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/08\/director-and-screenwriter-valerie-muller-adapting-polina\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Discover how the filmmakers transformed the pages of the graphic novel with movement to explore the journey of a dancer&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-vw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}