FFCC members review Sebastian Schipper’s ‘Victoria’
FFCC members review Sebastian Schipper’s ‘one-shot’ crime feature, Victoria.
Juan Barquin, Dim the House Lights
“Schipper is equal parts talented and lucky to have managed to capture what he did in the allotted time.”
Hans Morgenstern, Independent Ethos
“The single take works for this film because it captures both the mundane and the spontaneous with a sort of reverent naturalism.”
Reuben Pereira, Film Frontier
“Victoria may have its issues—it could have benefited from a leaner first act, and for its conceit, it does run a bit long—but this one-of-a-kind experimental motion picture not only stands as a towering technical achievement of the form, and also as a riveting thrill ride.”
Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald
“Victoria is a stunt, but it’s a neat stunt that shapes and informs the movie – an integral part of the story.”
Alfred Soto, Humanizing the Vacuum
“Victoria matters less as a thriller than as a portrait of young adults with more enthusiasm than brains… Thanks to a strategy that tripped up Hitchcock and Iñnaritu, Victoria can claim that it shows the desperation into which nice people can sink after a lifetime of conservatory training.”
