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Jojo is new at Munich Academy of Fine Arts, here to learn from her idol, Robert Copley - she makes friends, she puts her best foot forward. We know this story - she will fall apart.

Although that's what's to be expected in a story like this, Jojo seems to be made of tougher stuff - navigating the ruthless landscape of Munich's art scene with a true grace. The glamour of the Art buyers, the call of fame, the age-old dilemma of commerciality vs authenticity. Everyone in her world has opinions, and she is in constant battle with them.

It's not clear whether Jojo is driven mad by her teacher, Robert Copley because she think's he's right – I certainly don't believe any good art is derived from this level of negativity – but that seems to be where it ends, having given us the full odyssey of modern and classic artistic expression in student-age Munich, the final words her mentor tells her are ones of encouragement. After a film filled with abuse, she sends yet another young girl down to have the same experience.

The message the film sends, therefore, feels a little disjointed – seeming to say that great art grows only from pain (quite literally what is said in the film), which I would have to disagree with in general, but that clearly has been the case for this film specifically - a semi-autobiography written and produced by Camilla Guttner. Whatever pain she experienced there in Munich, she seems very clear eyed about now.

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