French writer-director Elie Grappe’s debut feature, “Olga,” co-written with Raphaëlle Desplechin, uses a unique lens to examine the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution, the protests that rocked Kyiv and sent ...
Elie Grappe’s quietly poignant film about a young gymnast finds her torn between her passion and the violence gripping her country — in 2013. By Austin Considine When you purchase a ticket for an ...
Pablo Picasso, “Portrait d’Olga dans un fauteuil” (1918), oil on canvas, 130 x 88.8 cm (collection of Musée national Picasso-Paris, ©RMN-Grand Palais / Mathieu Rabeau) (all images courtesy of Musée ...
A teenage gymnast is forced to leave Kyiv as violence breaks out in Ukraine, making it difficult to focus on her Olympic dreams, in Elie Grappe's timely debut. If all the bad news from that corner of ...
In a couple of months, we will be saturated with Olympic feel-good stories. That’s a big part of why television networks pay enormous sums for the rights to telecast the Games. They call these ...
Grappe’s film doesn’t feel a world away from last year’s Cannes Label title Slalom, although the threat to the lonely female athlete here - 15 year-old tough-as-nails Ukrainian gymnast Olga (Anastasia ...
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