Paulina

At the fork in the road of life, facing many setbacks and confusion, how should we choose with our original dreams?

The works of the 2012 French Comic Critic Awards, bring you the spiritual touch about dancing, about growth, about choices.

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※Editor's Choice※

This is a story about dancing. A little girl named Paulina has experienced setbacks and confusion on the way to pursue her dream of dancing. Pursuing the ultimate in art and never giving up, she finally achieved success and realized herself. And what she wants to do most is to compose a moving dance with her strict first teacher.

"I don't know anything except painting. What "Paolina" expresses is actually about me and painting." ——The author Vives said. And "Paulina" actually tells the story of each of us. When encountering setbacks and failures on the road of life, and feeling confused about the uncertain future, what you may need to do is to look back at your original pursuit and ideas, and then give your thoughts and ideas. As the enlightenment teacher said: "When you are at a high place, don't rush."

★ The most classic works of talented cartoonists: Bastien Vivès (Bastien Vivès), a talented cartoonist known as "the future of French comics". At the age of 10, he began to practice sketching. At the age of 25, his work "The Taste of Chlorine" won the Best Newcomer Award at the world's highest-level comic festival - France Angoulin Comics Festival. The subsequent work "Paolina" was shortlisted for the 2012 Angoulême Comics Festival Jury Prize, and "Last Man" won the 2015 Best Series Award. A film adaptation of Pauline starring Juliette Binoche is also on the horizon.

★ A film on paper with a long meaning: "Paolina" depicts a delicate and long story like a French literary film in the form of comics, expressing a faint and unfinished poetic flavor.

★ Deeply capture the beauty of dance: Vives expresses the beauty of dance to the extreme with simple but agile lines. With just a few strokes, you can deeply grasp the wonderful posture of the human body dancing.

★ The prototype is the famous dancer: the prototype of Polina Semionova, Polina Semionova (Polina Semionova) is a Russian ballet dancer, the current principal of ABT, once the principal actress of the German National Ballet, and the former English National Ballet , Tokyo Ballet, La Scala Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet as guest artists, performing guest performances in major cities around the world.

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※brief introduction※

"2012 Annual Comic Critic Award" by the French Media Review Comics Federation.

A Russian girl named Polina has shown extraordinary ballet talent since she was a child. At the age of six, she entered a famous dance school and studied with Professor Burzynski. Boginski's teaching methods were very strict, and the young Polina was deeply influenced by him.

After that, Paulina experienced setbacks and confusion on the way of pursuing dance. She left school to enter the theater, and wandered to Berlin alone...where she found her true self. Many years later, Polina has become famous, and what she wants to do most is to go back to her hometown and dance with her first teacher Bozynski again.

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※Recommended by celebrities※

After reading "Baulina", a picture book depicting the life of a ballet dancer, not only my heart was touched... my whole body was so shaken that I couldn't speak for a moment! Dance is the same as life, you often have to face choices, and once you choose, you have to bear it yourself, and the result is often not judgeable in a short time. As Polina's friend William said in order to help her decide: "Dance is an art in which there are neither enemies nor friends".

——Wu Jintao, Artistic Director of Wandering Dance Theater, moved and recommended!