Po seansie zapraszamy na spotkanie z bohaterką filmu. Nowosybirsk. Ponury krajobraz industrialnego miasta w samym środku zimy. Kto nie chciałby uciec z tego miejsca do ekscytującego Tokio, aby tam w miesiąc zarobić więcej niż wynosi roczny przychód całej rodziny? Właśnie to pragnienie przywiodło dziesiątki młodych Rosjanek na casting do agencji Noah Models. Tak właśnie zaczyna się „Modelka" - najnowszy film duetu reżyserskiego: Ashley Sabin i Davida Redmona. Ada P. Who wouldn't want to fly off to the vibrant city of Tokyo if they'd grown up in the poverty and cold of Siberia? Thirteen-year-old Nadja is skin and bones with big blue peepers, and she's had the good fortune to be able to get started as a model in the Japanese capital. It seems like the ideal way of fleeing poverty and shaking off her dowdy image, but it turns out to be harder for her to make her way in Tokyo than she had expected. Nadya's model scout Ashley knows all about it. Resigned to the situation, she observes how the Japanese are obsessed by youth and beauty. She looks back on her career and sees how not every girl in a bikini is really earning her money from photo shoots. Small, personal photo projects give Ashley at least some sense of making a creative contribution to the world. The filmmakers followed the two women, who speak frankly about their lives and represent two extremes of the tough world of modeling; while Nadya's determination to make it as a model intensifies, so does Ashley's ambivalent and pessimistic view of the modeling world.
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