Apolonia, Apolonia
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This intimate long-term portrait follows a young artist pursuing a life shaped by art, idealism and uncertainty, with the same tender attention to youthful devotion and self-invention.
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Why this pick
This intimate long-term portrait follows a young artist pursuing a life shaped by art, idealism and uncertainty, with the same tender attention to youthful devotion and self-invention.
Why this pick
Varda’s curious, essayistic journey finds poetry in art, ordinary lives and chance encounters; it shares the original film’s open-hearted belief that cultural fascination can become personal connection.
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For its wordless, music-driven visual poetry: an immersive pilgrimage through vast landscapes and human environments that extends the meditative, image-led side of Yuguo’s journey.
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Archival images and lyrical narration honor two people whose intellectual passion becomes a way of life, matching the tenderness and romantic pull of an all-consuming cultural obsession.
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01 / THE STORY
16-year-old Yuguo, who has a passion for Eastern European romantic poetry, makes a pilgrimage from his home in China to the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
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