![]() If this film’s directors, Valérie Müller and the French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, don’t offer much overt material on Polina’s inner life, it’s because they don’t have to: the point of Polina, and this movie, is that her dancing is her being. Unmoored in Europe, she later regains some exuberance in Belgium with an improvisational troupe that takes inspiration from street life and electronic dance music.Įnduring bruises, torn toenails and hard falls is only one part of a dancer’s day-to-day life. After leaving Russia for France, however, she fails to find her groove while working with a romantic partner under the guidance of a compassionate but stern contemporary dance choreographer (Juliette Binoche). The teenage Polina, played in a confident, winning, lived-in performance by Anastasia Shevtsova (a real-life ballerina who trained with the Mariinsky Ballet), gets a shot at the Bolshoi, but breaks away from that to follow her artistic instincts. The title character is first seen as a young girl in a Russian ballet school, dancing to her own beat on the way home from class. Polina is a version of Paula (Latin): feminine of Paul. In “Black Swan” (2010) they were made - perhaps more accurately - mind-bendingly horrific.Īdapted from Bastien Vivès’s graphic novel, “Polina” takes a largely straightforward and sometimes documentary-style approach in its depiction of a dancer’s life. Polina as a name for girls is of Latin origin, and the name Polina means 'small'. In the 1948 classic “The Red Shoes” even the most unpretty parts of the process were made beautiful. Rather than asking questions about her life and service, journalists would ask questions about her makeup, or her thoughts on the unflattering army uniform.One of the most affecting songs in the musical “A Chorus Line” observes, “everything was beautiful at the ballet.” The amount of sweat, strain and pain that goes into creating that beauty has had its cinematic moments. She lives in a huge apartment in Kensington and loves to party, her instagram feed looks like a non-stop holiday. However, Lyudmila was met with misogyny in the media. Polina is a 26-year-old glamorous Russian girl from London. It was thought that her inspirational story would motivate the American population to get involved in World War 2. While it seems Call of Duty: Vanguard’s setting falls after Lyudmila’s service, the parallels between Polina and Lyudmila are clear.Īfter being honorably discharged from service, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was sent to the US to tell her story. Her parents Anton and Svetlana were also slain Russian soldiers slaughtered them - her younger brother Semyon died this week. ![]() To that point, Lyudmila Pavlichenko had killed 309 enemy soldiers and had been the subject of numerous threats and even bribes by the Nazis, who were desperate to see the back of Lyudmila. Polina, 10, was shot dead while in a car with her family. In real life, Lyudmila Pavlichenko had seen the last of frontline combat due to being injured by a Mortar Shell. Call of Duty: Vanguard’s gameplay demo picks up over a year later, as Polina Petrova is much more experienced. This invasion was what first brought the war to her doorstep. Despite being in her fourth year of university, she was one of the first people to enroll, as her school was destroyed by the Nazi’s invasion. What had prompted Lyudmila to enroll with the Soviet army was Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. However, she soon escapes and begins making her way through Stalingrad, killing Nazis as she goes. Initially, the player poses as a civilian, and is directed into a room by German soldiers. The demo begins as the invasion is in full swing, with the player awakening in a crumbling building infested with German soldiers. This is an exciting sneak peek into what can be expected from this year’s Call of Duty campaign offering, and the early signs are pretty promising.Ĭall of Duty: Vanguard’s Stalingrad demo featured Assassins Creed-style climbing, Call of Duty’s new blind fire mechanic, and a lot of the chaos that can be expected from Vanguard’s campaign. This gameplay demo featured a mission from Call of Duty: Vanguard’s campaign, depicting the German invasion of Stalingrad. ![]() However, for the Call of Duty fan who is more concerned with the solo campaign experience, Vanguard’s Stalingrad demo may have been the most exciting footage released yet. Not least of all in Vanguard's multiplayer reveal event, which highlighted a number of new features and modes. To this point, fans have received a lot of gameplay footage from Call of Duty: Vanguard. ![]()
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