Apolonia, Apolonia
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1h 55m
Directed by Lea Glob | 116 mins | 2022
With her intense gaze and assured manner, the artist who gives Lea Glob’s documentary its title, a French painter born into the Parisian counterculture, is a figure of considerable magnetism. Filmed over the course of 13 years, from Apolonia’s early twenties and into her thirties, Glob’s engrossing durational portrait interrogates what it means to be both a young woman and a burgeoning artist, not just via her subject’s journey but also her own.
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