Victoria is a German drama released in 2015 which follows a young Spanish woman whom moved to Berlin and meets a group of locals when she's on a night out on her own. But as she thinks the night is about to come to an end she is dragged into a life threatening situation.
Sebastian Schipper wrote and directed this film at a low budget especially for what the film wanted to achieve. The aim was to do the film all in one take and with only having a large enough budget for three attempts and failing twice, it was clinical they got it right the third time of asking. So, because of this factor cinematography was a key micro feature to this film to make it stand out from the rest, this then lead to the 17 awards received and the majority were for the camera work involved. When I first heard the film was only one take I struggled to believe that the shots that it had intact would be as good or give that breathtaking feeling compared to a film with multiple takes and cuts. My assumption was wrong, there were various frames that were of the highest calibur and could capture moments of bonding and friendship between each character, but then the movement of the camera helped me as a spectator be more engrossed in the film and feel like I was in it giving a POV vibe. Adding on the one take made it feel much more realistic, the duration of this film was 2 hours and that meant you were really watching events that all happened within a couple hours which made it seem all the more realistic again.
Talking about the one take leads me into another micro feature that could have been seem inadequate or not up to a satisfactory standard because of the length of it. This is the performance, for the actors such as Laia Costa who played our protagonist Victoria and Frederick Lau who played Sonne, the man Victoria had a short but sweet romance with, meant they showed great stamina in order for them to be performing constantly and consistently.
The link for the trailer is below :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp8wcV3GjW0
