Perhaps making Sokurov’s one-shot wonder Russian Ark feel a little dated, the Adopt Films crew have potentially “robbed” another fest favorite in the award-winning Berlin Film Festival thriller, Victoria. In the vein of Tom Twyker’s Run, Lola, Run (it’s German, plot involves running and stealing and the film’s helmer studied under Twyker), Sebastian Schipper’s, over two hour film in one take Comp title claimed the Outstanding Artistic Contribution Silver Bear for cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen. Deadline reports that a late summer/early fall 2015 release is to be expected.
Gist: Featuring starlet Laia Costa in the lead role of Victoria, this is about a young woman from Madrid who meets four young Berlin guys outside a club. Sonne and his gang (Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, and Max Mauff) have got themselves into hot water and Victoria ends up as their driver. But what starts as a big, crazy adventure quickly turns into a nightmare…
Worth Noting: A whopping twenty-plus locations were used in the film.
Do We Care?: Traditionally there are about less than a dozen items that are — this appears to be one of them with Variety’s Guy Lodge labeling this exhilarating tale “one suffused with a surprising degree of grace and emotional authenticity,” with THR’s Stephen Dalton stating this is a “dazzling stylistic experiment which largely pays off”.
