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Director
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Cast
Guslagie Malanga,
Nadia Moussa,
Catherine Mouchet,
Pierre Andrau,
Pascal Greggory,
Tony Harrisson
Genre
Drama
Victoria, a black eight-year-old orphan, spends the night with an upper-class white family. Still haunted by the experience years later, her life changes forever when she unexpectedly reconnects with the family's son. The film explores the complicated politics race, class, and privilege in modern-day Paris.
Village Voice by Scott Tobias
My Friend Victoria has a specific vibrancy as delicate and understated as Lessing's social critique. It's an accumulation of small moments: telling gazes, sour notes in the dialogue, the persistent impression of a woman who's in a room but never fully present.
The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer
Victoria is definitely what you would call a passive protagonist, and although the film subtly explores questions of ethnic identity, it doesn't necessarily keep one engaged until the end.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
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.
Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
The film disappoints in its refusal to allow for deeper articulations of racism beyond, well, visible and verbal displays of racism.
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