All photos by Meredith Wright. Starbucks is our happy place. Iced lattes cool us down from the oppressive Shanghai heat, and the cheerful, air-conditioned interior serves as welcome relief from an afternoon of monotonous castings. But one of our crew wasn't happy: She was a model from Russia, 15 years old, sitting alone and looking down at the floor.
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A documentary by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin. In English, Russian, and Japanese with English subtitles. Rated G. Opens Friday, August 10, at the Vancity Theatre. What if there were virtually no options open but to parade before strangers who judge your essential worth on the basis of the looks of your barely pubescent body? Such things happen everywhere, but this disturbing documentary is mostly interested in the dynamic between naive young Russians and the people who use them. The latest blond nymph to have her head filled with dreams of fame and fortune is year-old Nadya Vall, a willowy child-woman with a vacant, Amanda Seyfried stare and parents who quickly come to depend on her modelling potential. Vall is, ostensibly, the subject here, but once she gets stuck in a tiny Tokyo apartment, alongside a slightly more wised-up read angry model, you start suspecting that codirectors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin are really focusing on Arbaugh. The latter is also seen in her curiously sterile Connecticut mansion, where she obsesses about increasingly dark subjects.
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