Apolonia, Apolonia

Name: Apolonia, Apolonia
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: January 12, 2024
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Alexandra Tlolka, Apolonia Sokol, Hervé Breuil, Lea Glob, Oksana Shachko

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CAT&Docs | Release Date: January 12, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandra Tlolka, Apolonia Sokol, Hervé Breuil, Lea Glob, Oksana Shachko

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.

Director: Lea Glob

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 116 min

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Alissa Wilkinson

Jan 11, 2024

Apolonia, Apolonia is beguiling as a portrait of women with ambition, but also bittersweet. Read full review

Sage Dunlap

Jan 17, 2024

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. Read full review

Neil Young

Dec 14, 2023

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. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Dec 22, 2023

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Jan 12, 2024

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. Read full review

The Guardian Phuong Le

Dec 14, 2023

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. Read full review

IndieWire Marya E. Gates

Jan 16, 2024

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. Read full review

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