Mon amie Victoria

Based on the story "Victoria and the Staveneys" by Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, My Friend Victoria (Mon Amie Victoria) relocates its black London heroine to contemporary Paris. Director Jean-Paul Civeyrac manages a treatise on race and class that's subtle, moving, and refreshingly non-didactic, refusing to reduce the characters to symbols or dilute the richness of Lessing's prose. (zeitgeistfilms.com)