Joika at Lumiere Cinemas
Joika
The young, ambitious ballerina leaves her home and loved ones in her native Texas for the world of Russian ballet as one of the first Americans admitted to the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Working with legendary teacher Tatyana Volkova, Joy Womack trains to one day become a prima ballerina. Behind the beauty of dance lurks a world full of pain and brutal competition. Joy is forced to push her physical and mental boundaries, putting her health, her relationships, and perhaps her entire life at stake, on a journey to discover and understand what it truly means to be the best....
"Based on a true story, New Zealand writer-director James Napier Robertson’s Joika follows a promising American ballerina as she goes through the gauntlet of the Bolshoi Academy. As Liam Maguren writes, the film delivers plenty of squirm-inducing suspense and a compelling moral quagmire...." Flicks
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"Based on a true story, New Zealand writer-director James Napier Robertson’s Joika follows a promising American ballerina as she goes through the gauntlet of the Bolshoi Academy. As Liam Maguren writes, the film delivers plenty of squirm-inducing suspense and a compelling moral quagmire...." Flicks
The young, ambitious ballerina leaves her home and loved ones in her native Texas for the world of Russian ballet as one of the first Americans admitted to the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Working with legendary teacher Tatyana Volkova, Joy Womack trains to one day become a prima ballerina. Behind the beauty of dance lurks a world full of pain and brutal competition. Joy is forced to push her physical and mental boundaries, putting her health, her relationships, and perhaps her entire life at stake, on a journey to discover and understand what it truly means to be the best....
"Based on a true story, New Zealand writer-director James Napier Robertson’s Joika follows a promising American ballerina as she goes through the gauntlet of the Bolshoi Academy. As Liam Maguren writes, the film delivers plenty of squirm-inducing suspense and a compelling moral quagmire...." Flicks
"Based on a true story, New Zealand writer-director James Napier Robertson’s Joika follows a promising American ballerina as she goes through the gauntlet of the Bolshoi Academy. As Liam Maguren writes, the film delivers plenty of squirm-inducing suspense and a compelling moral quagmire...." Flicks
Joika
The young, ambitious ballerina leaves her home and loved ones in her native Texas for the world of Russian ballet as one of the first Americans admitted to the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Working with legendary teacher Tatyana Volkova, Joy Womack trains to one day become a prima ballerina. Behind the beauty of dance lurks a world full of pain and brutal competition. Joy is forced to push her physical and mental boundaries, putting her health, her relationships, and perhaps her entire life at stake, on a journey to discover and understand what it truly means to be the best....
"Based on a true story, New Zealand writer-director James Napier Robertson’s Joika follows a promising American ballerina as she goes through the gauntlet of the Bolshoi Academy. As Liam Maguren writes, the film delivers plenty of squirm-inducing suspense and a compelling moral quagmire...." Flicks
