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My Friend Victoria

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Victoria, a black 8-year-old orphan, is taken in by a white bourgeois family for a night. Years later, she has a brief affair with the youngest son of the host family and bears his child.
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Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times 12/03/2015
As drifting and dreamy as its searching heroine, "My Friend Victoria" takes a graceful but unsatisfying stroll through the life and longings of a young black woman in contemporary Paris. Go to Full Review
Scott Tobias Village Voice 12/01/2015
My Friend Victoria has a specific vibrancy as delicate and understated as Lessing's social critique. Go to Full Review
Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine 11/29/2015
2/4
The film disappoints in its refusal to allow for deeper articulations of racism beyond, well, visible and verbal displays of racism. Go to Full Review
David Noh Film Journal International 12/03/2015
Doris Lessing is the source of this quietly affecting, very worthwhile portrait of a young African woman adrift in Paris. Go to Full Review
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Movie Info

Synopsis Victoria, a black 8-year-old orphan, is taken in by a white bourgeois family for a night. Years later, she has a brief affair with the youngest son of the host family and bears his child.
Director
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Producer
Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart, Philippe Martin
Screenwriter
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Distributor
Zeitgeist
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 4, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 18, 2018
Runtime
1h 35m
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