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IRINA DVOROVENKO as KIIRA in FLESH AND BONE (2015)

[IMAGE ID: kiira, a prima ballerina of ukranian origin in her late thirties sits on a couch in her dressing room. she is slender, dark-haired and caucasian, dressed in a blue singlet with a small diamond-encrusted cross hanging from a silver chain around her neck, her hair tied up in a bun at the back of her head, with only one lock hanging freely down the right side of her face. a blue floral blanket is laid over the back of the couch that puts one in mind of vincent van gogh’s painting entitled ‘almond blossoms’. she gesticulates tersely while speaking to someone out of frame, telling them, “A little pain is a fact of this life. To feel it is a choice.” she then leans closer to them, briefly out of focus, the cross around her neck swinging forward as she emphatically states, “I choose no.” END ID.]