Although Glob aims for an intimate portrait, her zoom is almost too close, her narration too navel-gazingly shallow, which results in a doc that often remains distant and distorted.

The kind of film whose essence patiently and gradually materializes like an abstract painting in the making.

“Apolonia, Apolonia” is beguiling as a portrait of women with ambition, but also bittersweet.

Apolonia Apolonia manages to paint a fairly engaging portrait of an artist discovering the intimate balance between success, her place in the world as a woman, and her freedoms as an artist.