Review of Victoria

Victoria (II) (2015)
10/10
A wonderful surprise
18 December 2018
Many of the negative reviewers see the Victoria character as a sweet girl who would not get involved with four strange street guys on a mission she doesn't understand. I didn't find it so incredible. She has just had her life turned upside down, having failed in her classical music career. She is friendless in a foreign city, and she has no one until one night she is charmed by one of the four, Sonne. I thought the movie was extremely well done. I read background that they first filmed it in several "takes," as insurance in case they couldn't get the one-take approach to work. First doing a several takes version did pay off, because the action in the final, single-take version stays smooth, and in fact drives forward at quite an accelerating pace. I was gripping my seat. The single take really puts you admidst the characters and the story. Out of nowhere, this film comes as a wonderful, thrilling surprise.
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