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- 2024
- Grasshopper Film
- 1 h 56 m
- 2024
- Grasshopper Film
- 1 h 56 m
Summary The talented Apolonia grows up seeking her place in the art world while grappling with the agonies and joys of womanhood and relationships in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism, and war.
Directed By: Lea Glob
Written By: Andreas Bøggild Monies, Lea Glob
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- Grasshopper Film
- 1 h 56 m
- 2024
- Grasshopper Film
- 1 h 56 m
Apolonia, Apolonia
77
7.0
Where to Watch
Summary The talented Apolonia grows up seeking her place in the art world while grappling with the agonies and joys of womanhood and relationships in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism, and war.
Directed By: Lea Glob
Written By: Andreas Bøggild Monies, Lea Glob
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
6 Reviews
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25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
77
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
At the beginning of Apolonia, Apolonia, Glob proclaims her goal: To create an eternal portrait of her subject, one that evokes the paintings of kings. She accomplishes this feat, leaving a dazzling record of Sokol’s life that champions and carries on her legacy as an artist.
Apolonia, Apolonia is beguiling as a portrait of women with ambition, but also bittersweet.
The artist’s charm is never more apparent than in the final section of Apolonia, Apolonia, in which we hear Glob and Apolonia’s phone conversations. Apolonia is no longer just a subject but a confidant. She has pulled not only Glob but us, too, into her orbit.
Very much a collaborative affair between subject Apolonia Sokol and Danish filmmaker Lea Glob, it also functions as a snapshot of millennial creatives and their struggles to balance public and private lives amid external financial and psychological pressures.
The result is something deeply reflective about femininity, culture, commerce, friendship, sexuality and the various souls who dwell in the impossible intersection of it all.
As Sokol’s style matures, Glob’s direction also becomes visibly more assured. The meandering beginning in which the film-maker’s narration does a lot of the heavy lifting soon becomes more stylistically coherent.
While Glob took exception with the assessment that Apolonia’s personality was more interesting than her work, her surface level portrait of her as both an artist and as person ironically upholds that very statement.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.0
73% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.0
73% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
27% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
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Production Company
Danish Documentary Production,
HBO Max Central Europe,
Staron Film
Release Date Jan 12, 2024
Duration 1 h 56 m
Genres
Awards
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
International Documentary Association
• 4 Nominations
Koszalinski Festiwal Debiutow Filmowych Mlodzi i Film
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
