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Victoria

2015
Romance
Drama
2h 18m
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Rated 24 Jul 2015
62
30th
Kind of stupid. The long take has no other use than telling a story, that you can have every sunday evening with a German TV crime movie. And while it is thrilling at first, it becomes very unbelievable as it continues.
Rated 09 Aug 2015
65
47th
Yes it is a great camerawork which gave me an intense and sincere experience but I think it is again one of those movies which are significant only for one aspect of them and unfortunately this doesn't suffice to have great art. For me "form" always imposes a meaning and should serve for smthing, but there it has no connection with the content of this movie which means nothing for me and besides which contains lot of unconvincing twists. Audacious stylistic try but why?
Rated 13 Dec 2015
68
50th
It's a better from a technical standpoint than it is an actual movie. I appreciate it but it really could've had an hour taken off an it'd have the same effect.
Rated 03 Jul 2015
93
95th
Of course we could talk about technique, about acting, about details, about the guts and shortcomings of this project. But, in the end nothing matters but this: I cried. I laughed. I have clawed me in the seat. I heard my heart beating. If that ain't cinema, I don't know what is.
Rated 05 Sep 2015
90
96th
After the film I went straight home, took my laptop and wrote this, while my heart is still beating 10 times faster as it should be. This is the most intense film i've ever seen! "Nie normaal" (with music of genius Nils Frahm)
Rated 03 Jan 2016
82
88th
Doing a 2 1/2-hour movie in one take is only a "gimmick" if it doesn't actually add anything. What it does add to an already very good movie about a bored young woman who winds up drawn into something she doesn't recognize until it's too late is that the audience is trapped with her, unable to blink and cut to later, we have to go through the same anguish, we sit yelling at the screen to MOVE, GET OUT, DON'T, knowing there's no fast forward to save us. Incredible performance.
Rated 02 Jul 2015
9
90th
Forget Boyhood with its 12-years(weeks!)-in-the-making premise or Birdman and its one-take approach full of hidden cuts. Schipper and his wonderful group of actors have pulled off the most audacious cinematic feat of the decade with Victoria, a hugely ambitious mix of technical prowess and emotional heft that pulsates with energy, unexpected love and devastation. I was apprehensive at the start but by the end it had sucked me in, chewed me up and spat me back out. Film of the year so far for me.
Rated 20 May 2017
55
11th
Cute name for a cute girl. Sadly this film wasn't cute at all. A girl from Spain meets up with a group of Berlin lifers. She gets mixed up in a plot to rob a bank and is on the run for most of the movie. Once again, I'd like to smack the maker of Birdman. This movie tries to be edgy like Birdman and has the over the shoulder shot, following Victoria around the whole movie. I hate this new trend. I like to see a lot of different shots, and this closely following stalker-shot...
Rated 05 Jan 2016
30
5th
It's actually funny when you read "one take" on the tagline because it's the only thing the movie stands for. While we're wandering in Berlin through the same streets with these five uninteresting, hysterical characters, Victoria feels so bloated and uneven -- it's poorly paced and too staged to actually convince; the one-take gimmick is never justified by the storytelling. The kind of friendly-festival artsy eurothriller that usually is called masterpiece -- and forgotten in a couple of years.
Rated 22 Jan 2016
80
90th
although plotwise it becomes less and less believable the further it proceeds, it still is an almost insane effort from everyone involved. especially acting and staging are pretty much flawless, and there's SO much that can go wrong. of course you have the occasional mic or camera-man's shadow dropping in, but that's petty nitpicking for a one-take movie with ever-changing scenario. you can only imagine the applause and relief after someone finally, finally, FINALLY got to yell "cut!"
Rated 29 Jul 2015
80
81st
The cinematography was just insane. Ok, Birdman may have the more poetic camera work, but in the end there is some editing. This is one take. Period. And it's done perfectly.
Rated 02 Jan 2016
70
15th
Good lord that first hour is a painful slog to sit through. The second hour isn't much better.
Rated 06 Jan 2016
20
7th
Wow, how stupid can a person be? This movie had some unrealistically stupid characters. Other then that i think the male actor did a good job and the direction was interesting but the story was boring and without logic.
Rated 18 Feb 2016
62
19th
Egregiously stupid in its character motivations and unconscionably obnoxious in its melodramatic tonal shifts, Schipper banks his film's success on a single defining characteristic--being shot in one take--while failing to create anything engaging or meaningful within the frame. Narratively daft and technically uninspired, 'Victoria''s choreography is accomplished, but there can be no graver error than automatically believing #butitwasasingletake is worthy of admiration on its own merits.
Rated 21 Dec 2015
82
77th
Schipper's one take isn't just a technical achievement. It's also one of the best examples of one take as a meaning of storytelling.
Rated 24 Nov 2015
65
53rd
Fantastic naturalistic performances, a great setup with well drawn characters, and one of the best evocations of that early-morning booze-addled prolong-the-party club vibe I've ever seen. Yet this is all squandered as it degenerates into a garbage-tier crime show with a bunch of idiots running aimlessly around the streets of Berlin. It is disappointing then that the momentous one-shot achievement and stellar opening act is cancelled out leaving a merely good movie when it could have been great.
Rated 22 Nov 2015
5
44th
It's obviously very impressive technically but at a certain point I thought that the one shot gimmick became its downfall rather than its strength. Like the shootout scene you can't really tell what's going on and when that one guy ends up being shot it isn't very believable since the camera was on him basically the entire time. It drags in parts as well. It's watchable, but not the masterpiece some are claiming it to be.
Rated 24 Dec 2015
88
97th
One of the best rides I've ever had watching a movie. Mad camerawork, all in one take. A real rollercoaster. Thumbs up.
Rated 21 Nov 2015
60
52nd
In its adherence to a needless gimmick you have to suffer an extra hour of plot that if this wasn't done in a single shot would've been cut down to 10 minutes. Nice naturalistic performance by the lead girl that you believe and can latch onto but christ does it get boring waiting for the plot to start
Rated 19 Aug 2015
63
36th
Astonishing camerawork and great leading roles, especially Frederick Mau. For the rest, substandard performances and an unimaginative dull story stricken with gigantic plot holes disparage a well tried movie. -- Groundbreaking approach, but sloppy in details way too often.
Rated 12 Jan 2016
90
90th
Great achievement from Schipper not to mention Costa's and Grøvlens' cinematography skills which both make the story more believable as well as lend the story more credibility than the script might actually deserve, but the one-take and splendid acting simply draws you into the the Berlin nighttime and doesn't let you go until the sun is up and everything looks different and you live in a world where no film student ever will have to endure "The Russian Ark". There, all one sentence. Yay me...
Rated 06 Dec 2015
50
34th
The impressive technical achievement isn't worth much in the company of obnoxious and stupid characters. The final 30 minutes are rather thrilling.
Rated 01 Jul 2016
75
76th
The story is rather far-fetched (at least I'm still waiting for a Spanish Björk to come rob a bank with me after seeing me kicked out of a club that she was just going home from), and partly this may be the result of shooting in one shot, but what a shot it is! The camera is always in the middle but never in the way, and the acting walks all over other movies despite much more limited possibilities of preparation and directorial input. Looking forward to seeing more from this director and DP.
Rated 06 Jan 2020
70
70th
I loved the first act, but the film lost me a bit as it went into cliched heist territory. Still impressive as a one take film - especially Laia Costa's acting is something to admire.
Rated 08 Jan 2016
80
37th
I think I liked this best in the first hour, before any sort of crime plays into it. That's when the film does such a lovely job of capturing the spontaneity of a night out on the town, the sense of excitement and danger, and the way you're willing to trust just about anybody when you're drunk and having a good time - but only if they are also drunk and having a good time.
Rated 22 Nov 2015
83
88th
Laia Costa was shining in the lead. She convinced me that she WAS Victoria. Dragged a bit in the first half an hour but some sudden twists towards the latter half made it an unique movie experience. Not to forget the non cutting camera shooting.
Rated 28 Sep 2015
5
81st
Honestly, it loses it's steam once it hits the bank robbery part, but maybe I just like movies where people wander around and go to clubs more than heisty, action stuff. The single take thing was amazing, but didn't really work for a tense bank robbery imo. The opening half was breathtaking.
Rated 06 Jan 2017
86
94th
A simply incredible piece of film-making (and planning!). The single take *never* felt gimmicky, it just felt wholly immersive like you were there with the characters at all times. Laia Costa delivered a performance which covered the full gamut of emotions. Her scenes with Lau had a great chemistry. Right from the first bad decision of the script, your feelings go from apprehensive, to edgy, to downright falling off your seat in terror several times. Incredible sustained tension. Bravo Schipper!
Rated 08 Feb 2017
99
99th
Very raw, intense and aggressive cinema, exactly to my tastes. This has the potential to become a cult classic.
Rated 02 Jul 2015
92
99th
Audacious cinema, and nary (or rarely) a false note. A movie that makes you excited about movies all over again.
Rated 22 Feb 2017
59
19th
If they'd actually, you know, edited this thing, it might have been a crackerjack thriller clocking in under two hours. Everyone else seems to have found tension, but I thought it was pretty flabby.
Rated 29 Oct 2017
100
97th
Taking a whole movie in one shot must have been a grueling experience but this cast puts up a solid performance throughout the whole movie and it is a masterpiece.
Rated 16 Mar 2016
56
36th
Was really disappointed by this. Decently high expectations weren't even close to met.
Rated 31 Jan 2016
50
19th
Extremely slow because of the continuous scene format, though there's certainly interesting tension at the end if you liberally use the skip forward function to get through the movie.
Rated 27 Dec 2015
69
57th
I like the fact that the movies was made in one take (without any cuts or interuptions) but being made just like that the movie was really boring until the end. But I applaud the originality tough.
Rated 19 Nov 2015
74
82nd
This is a story about a nice girl from Madrid who's had her artistic dreams crushed, and who's now subconsciously on a self-destructive path. That's really the only explanation I can come up with as to why she dives head-on into situations that everyone else would see as dangerous from a mile away. It's a beautiful stunt, the most suspenseful film of the year, and quite a nightmarish ride. But that's all it is - a ride.
Rated 24 Sep 2016
50
6th
90 for technical achievement, but that doesn't make it a great film. The creator of this film stated in an interview that he made an edited version for safety, and that "it was nothing." Well, hate to break it to you, but since a film should stand on its own, regardless of its technique, you still kinda have nothing here.
Rated 13 Dec 2015
8
71st
A commendable example of audacious filmmaking, 'Victoria' uses a single take to grip and enthrall in this naturalistic crime drama. While the grounded approach limits the film to a pace that sometimes feels stifling, the stylish payoff definitely compensates.
Rated 10 Aug 2016
95
96th
Astonishing one tracking shot aside (and it really is something else) the movie has an excellent sense of urgency and tension once things get going about ~1 hr in. The build up to it didn't feel slow either as the cast is fantastic and the dynamic between Victoria/Sonne is great to watch. A must-watch if just for the one shot following them as everything unfolds. Unreal.
Rated 28 Feb 2021
83
78th
They really shot this thing just in one take? No ghost cuts whatsoever? Impressive. Acting is gorgeus.
Rated 14 Jan 2016
70
57th
tek planı ağzı açık bırakacak biçimde tansiyonu gittikçe yükselen bir hikayeyle uygulaması teknik açıdan filmin üstünlüğünün göstergesi. ama bu teknik yetinin ardında hikaye anlatımı olarak ikna edici olmayan, o çiğ macerayı sakatlayan bir toyluk var. her şeye rağmen 2000'lerin en iyi suç filmlerinden birisi, orası başka bir tartışma konusu.
Rated 10 Apr 2016
74
40th
The single shot conceit is both its biggest strength and weakness. The narrative is only somewhat suited for it, with some aspects of character development and key plot points feeling rushed, and the film makes other stylistic choices that undermine the urgency and realism of the central aesthetic. Despite all that, the single shot does work to build tension most of the time and it keeps things flowing and interesting. On the whole it ends up working, but there's plenty of missed opportunity.
Rated 28 Jul 2016
89
97th
I dont believe one bit that this was done in a single take. But as a continious running story during a night in Berlin I fully believe in it. The way Victoria gets to know, and sort of trust, these shady carachters I fully understand, the movie convinces me amazingly, the two leading actors are great and even outdoes Hawke / Delpy from the Sunset trilogy. Though I personally would have dismissed these men right from the start.
Rated 19 Apr 2024
100
96th
Portraying what began as likely the best night of its protagonist's life and ended easily the worst, Victoria proves to be not only one of the most forward-thinking, resourceful pieces of film of the 21st century but also needless to say one of the most wholehearted and enthusiastic.
Rated 15 Jan 2019
79
44th
It has its ups and downs, captivating at times, and ridiculous at others. Also too much drunken German,it gets really tiring.
Rated 11 Jul 2015
90
98th
A masterpiece of modern cinematography. This nightly trip will suck you in and leave you devastated, wondering how is one able to achieve such an incredibly perfect piece of art. It's not the story, it's how it is told. Truly one of Germany's most ambitious movies yet and therefore one of its greatest.
Rated 06 May 2016
85
79th
This movie was extra enjoyable for me, because I know about as much German as Victoria seemed to and I didn't put on subtitles, so I really felt for her. But even without knowing the language, the body language and tone of a lot of what was going on before the bad stuff happened would definitely have convinced me to get far away from those three.
Rated 05 Jul 2016
78
84th
Victoria's careless actions and decisions can be frustrating from time to time. I sometimes felt the urge to start shouting good advice at the screen. This made me feel disconnected to the plot, therefore the intended emotional impact of this cinematic roller-coaster ride remained absent.
Rated 15 Mar 2017
95
85th
That one long camera shot. Such a beautiful thing. seeing this movie is awe inspiring, the preparation needed for this to work seems like it would have been a daunting undertaking. To me it paid off. not only does this movie feel like you are spying on these people, but you feel like youre being drug along for the ride. The two main characters have such a real connection that it really pulls everything together, you genuinely feel for these people. I enjoyed the hell out of this roller coaster.
Rated 04 Jul 2016
80
86th
5.7.16
Rated 22 Jul 2020
65
19th
w/ Gaye
Rated 02 Aug 2015
90
95th
In a time where I've pretty much gave up on art, this kind of experiments should not appeal to me at all. But the intensnty of the disgusting real hetros losers men, who claim, and its hard to tell how drunk the actually are, that they are the grandsons of Mozart, and the fragile woman, that just want to shutter like milk glass, like some kind of a female manifistaion of Thomas bernhard... This truly might be the greatest german film I've ever seen.
Rated 28 Sep 2015
77
69th
That opening sequence was one of the more exciting sequences of the year/last couple years.Goes downhill from there but it still a good little spectacle film.Kinda typical low tier street crooks falling into a job too big for their own good but it still works cuz the cast has great chemistry.Would've been infinitely better if the fella who looked like Ian Mackaye just told the one dude to fuck off and him and Victoria just chilled in the cafe and then got high with the others on the roof again.
Rated 19 Mar 2017
85
85th
Breathtaking. Like being in the middle of a play rather than being detached from the action by a screen. Top notch work all round.
Rated 15 Oct 2016
65
62nd
The single continuous take is impressive but ultimately a gimmick as it served no narrative purpose, and can be ascribed to many narrative and character contrivances. The beginning of the film is the strongest part, but by the time we reach the crux of the plot (i.e. the gangsters) the film begins to fall apart, and continues to do so until the end. Costa is great and Lau does a good job of keeping up, but the characters developed in first 40 minutes are wasted by the end.
Rated 03 Oct 2018
57
13th
Kinda cool but also pretty boring. I really liked the opening scene.
Rated 30 May 2021
79
81st
Almanya, Berlin, gece kulübü, genç kız, yalnızlık, tanışma, çete, çatı, bira, SPOILER soygun, sürücü, çatışma, otel, Almaya'da kafede çalışan bir İspanyol olan Victoria, yalnızdır ve arkadaş edinemez. Gece kulübünden çıkarken dört gençle tanışır ve onlara takılır. Fakat gençler pis işlere bulaşmıştır. kendini bir soygunun içinde bulur. AKICI, KEYİFLİ ve müstehcen
Rated 08 Feb 2016
64
46th
Short story long (shot).
Rated 22 Nov 2020
60
35th
Technically, brilliant: it brings a lot of realism with the one-take process. Unfortunately, without that, the story feels like something that's been done already, and probably done better in a shorter amount of time. (Like one of the characters, I started fading out about halfway through.) More gripping, perhaps, might have been a "making of" showing the incredible scheduling and maneuvering of the camera crew to put this on the screen.
Rated 17 Dec 2015
80
86th
Costa gives one of the better performances of the year, and it's a thrill how much Schipper and Co. succeed in doing well in one long take. Every cut (of which there are none) is - as we know - a lie, so the continuity of the unbroken shot adds a good deal of intensity to the film. I loved the first 50 minutes or so... before the initial nightly meet-cute scenario gave way to crime, action and the occasional contrivance.
Rated 04 Mar 2016
80
55th
Victoria ist eine atemberaubende technische Leistung! So wird es auch auf dem Plakat angekündigt: Eine Stadt, eine Nacht, ein Take. 138 Minuten lang filmten Sebastian Schipper und sein Team den gesamten Film in einem durch... mehr auf cinegeek.de
Rated 09 Jun 2016
94
95th
I love me some hand-held camera action. Great leading performances from Laia Costa and Frederick Lau. The only thing that should be done now is to shot a version of this with some of my friends in Istanbul.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
80
72nd
Damn exhilarating. The form far outshines the plot, but its hard to focus on anything other than raw emotion here.
Rated 20 Nov 2015
85
92nd
Victoria lulls you into a comfortable place and then exploits that position expertly by shoving you into extremely intense situations. Due to the nature of filming, you're forced to absorb the chaos as the characters do. I loved this film but came out of the theater feeling a lot of anxiety.
Rated 19 Mar 2018
75
89th
Excellent.
Rated 10 Sep 2015
100
90th
Incredibly impressive. Worth watching for the skill, execution and acting alone. That said, the plot could have been better, it unfortunately goes off the rails and/or jumps the shark.
Rated 12 Apr 2015
77
64th
34. İstanbul Film Festivali - Feriye Sineması: İzlememin üzerinden neredeyse bir hafta geçti, hala böyle bir filmin nasıl tek planda çekildiğine hayret ediyorum. Lakin senaryosunda irili ufaklı gedikler de yok değil.
Rated 08 Apr 2016
9
98th
An extraordinary piece of storytelling, a compelling one take in real time coupled with convincing performances, that cover a range of emotions and relationship changes in a couple of hours. Amazing.
Rated 11 Oct 2023
64
58th
i really love the single take as a tool for realism and immersion, and early on it does create a unique sense of tension, but that quickly fades as the main character's motivation falls consistently short of believable, and the plot becomes outlandish. i wish it would have gone in a different direction, but, at the very least, it displays that this technique has the potential for a film much greater than this.
Rated 08 Jun 2021
70
70th
I really can't get enough of Laia Costa who is incredibly beautiful, captivating, and a superb actor. The fly-on-her-shoulder film approach to making this film was a bit exhausting. I was not particularly impressed with the plot or dialogs. She inadvertently gets mixed up with some dangerous criminals and like a deer caught in the headlights goes along with their violent crime. I feel in may ways her talents was wasted in this movie even though she is in pretty much every scene.
Rated 16 Aug 2016
90
90th
I think my IQ went down ten points while watching this, but i have to admit it was pretty exhilarating. The scene where they go back to the club after the heist might be my favorite movie moment of the year. The best thing i can say for the one-take gimmick is that it starts out feeling impressive and then i just sort of forgot about it, which is as it should be. Make no mistake, this is definitely "dude bro" arthouse filmmaking, but goddamn if it didn't suck me in.
Rated 16 Jul 2022
50
51st
okay movie
Rated 21 Nov 2015
68
70th
Rivals "Russian Ark" as the most impressive single-shot movie I've ever seen (and I've seen more, but there aren't many), although conceiving of what this took to direct is needlessly staggering and distracting. Schipper's best call here was to leave the dialogue to improv, because the cast gives a tour de force of naturalistic acting - particularly Laia Costa's performance is career-making. The story itself is not so fresh, and that is what hurts the score for me.
Rated 03 Sep 2021
92
91st
Нарратив - 3 Сценарий - 3 Сюжет - 4 Постановка - 4 Целостность - 4 Выполнение своей цели - 4 Жанр - 4 Атмосфера - 4 Эмоции - 4 Актерская игра - 4 Саундтрек - 3 Синематографи - 4 Визуал - 2 Флоу - 4 Звук - 3 Сложность - 1 Экста - 2 Оценка - 87 Общая - 96
Rated 08 Aug 2020
96
98th
Böyle bir şey beklemiyordum cidden. Tek planda 138 dakika. Bu inanılmaz bir şey. Bu kusursuz bir iş. Kusursuz bir planlama, kusursuz bir organizasyon. En ufak bir hatada o ana kadar olan tüm her şey çöpe atılır. Ve bu kusursuz organizasyonun üzerine muazzam bir hikaye kurgusu. Nefessiz ve arasız izledim. Uzun zamandır böyle bir şey izlememiştim.
Rated 03 Jan 2016
60
57th
A Spanish girl on holiday in Berlin meets some random German dudes at night on the street and decides to hang out with them. What's the worst that could happen.... It took a different direction then I thought, and my score may be it bit unfair, but it's quite a interesting movie nonetheless.
Rated 13 Jan 2016
40
39th
The sense of danger and fun of the first part of the movie is just sublime. Once the heist plot is revealed there is nothing interesting other than the one-shot gimmick.
Rated 27 Jun 2023
70
41st
A very impressive technical achievement, but the technical achievement (a single take for the whole movie) feels more like a gimmick than anything. There are some scenes where it is effective, but I feel like these could have been tracking shots and the movie on the whole probably would have been more effective. It also takes a WHILE to get going and Victoria just makes bad choice after bad choice. Flawed but interesting.
Rated 03 Dec 2015
70
96th
Gimmick or not, the 134 minute long take makes for a very authentic adrenaline triggered night-gone-wrong!
Rated 28 May 2016
43
24th
It deserves some points for making me feel really bad, i guess.
Rated 10 Nov 2018
100
97th
I felt the tension and excitement in my heart. The tempo of the relationship between victoria and the planet was spectacular. the calmness before the end, the heart palpitations before the end and all of them in the blink of an eye, camera angles, what happened in the bar .. I felt incredible. At the end of the movie there was a gap in my heart.
Rated 04 Dec 2015
82
79th
Naked clubbing, it'll get ya everytime.
Rated 07 Jan 2017
82
55th
Perfect take, and production also I liked girl's performance.

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