Victoria 2015

     This movie is shot in a single take with a hand held camera.  A young Spanish woman has recently moved to Berlin and she is actually a runaway party girl.  She finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his two friends reveals a dangerous secret.
     I didn’t last very long watching this movie.  Maybe it is cutting edge with the single take hand held camera but there needs to also be something interesting to watch??  Maybe it’s because of the age group and the things this group is drawn into doing?  If you are a viewer fitting into this category, it could possibly be good?  If you are older or younger or what they are doing is not your scene, you probably will not like this movie??  I could see right away that what Victoria was doing could be dangerous!!  1 1/2* (I really didn’t like this movie)  

138 min, Crime directed and written by Sebastian Schipper and Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike Frederik Schulz with Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, Andre Hennicke, Eike Frederik Schulz, Hans-Ulrich Laux, Lena Klenke, Philipp Kubitza, Martin Goeres, Andreas Schmitka, Jan Breustedt, David Micas, Timo Honsa.

Note:  Imdb 7.7 out of 10 with 47,156 views, Rotten Tomatoes 82% with 131 critics 83% with 4918 ratings, Roger Ebert Brian Tallerico 3*, The Guardian 5* Jonathan Romney, Metacritic 77 (21 positive mixed 6) with 127 critics 7.7 user score (74 positive, 10 mixed, 10 negative), Amazon 3.9* out of 5* with 68 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Berlin, Germany.  The dialogue is almost all improvised from a 12 page script.  The plot moves the cast and crew across seven locations.  A review says one city, one night, one take, one wow!!  The film unfolds in real-time and hits life’s imperfections and meandering beats along the way.  Generous reviews are for the filming and not the movie?  There isn’t a lot going on at first and it can be very slow.  It does pick up as it goes along and the actors don’t seem like actors.  It feels like a real night out but it lacks a story, is annoying at times and the happenings are off screen?  It’s like spending too many hours in a bar??