My Friend Victoria

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My Friend Victoria

Released Dec 4, 2015

1h 35m

Drama

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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

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.

Dec 3, 2015

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Scott Tobias

Village Voice

My Friend Victoria has a specific vibrancy as delicate and understated as Lessing's social critique.

Dec 1, 2015

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Clayton Dillard

Slant Magazine

The film disappoints in its refusal to allow for deeper articulations of racism beyond, well, visible and verbal displays of racism.

Rated: 2/4

Nov 29, 2015

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David Noh

Film Journal International

Doris Lessing is the source of this quietly affecting, very worthwhile portrait of a young African woman adrift in Paris.

Dec 3, 2015

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Simple story and yet profound at the same time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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THE FRENCH THEY ARE A FUNNY RACE 2015-PART UNE: reviews of movies at COL-COA, The Last Hammer Blow, Atlit, My Friend Victoria http://ow.ly/MetOU

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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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.

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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