Mon amie Victoria
Subtitle: My friend Victoria
By: Les Films Pelléas présente en coproduction avec Versus Production ; scénario et mise en scène, Jean-Paul Civeyrac ; produit par Philippe Martin
Contributors: Malanda, Guslagie, actor; Moussa, Nadia, actor; Mouchet, Catherine, 1959- actor; Greggory, Pascal, 1955- actor; Loret, Alexis, actor; Andrau, Pierre, actor; Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013; Films Pelléas; Versus Production; Kino Lorber, Inc
Published: 2018
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 95
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Drama; Social conditions; Black Children; Privilege (Social psychology); Black Women
Other titles: My friend Victoria; Louise, Sunday.; An hour with Alice.; Françoise in spring.
Description: The wealthy, white, well-intentioned, family of one of her schoolmates takes in an eight-year-old black child, named Victoria, for a night. The experience haunts her for years to come, shaping her desires and offering a mirage of privilege that she dreams of but finds impossible to attain. As an adult, she drifts from job to job, but then unexpectedly reconnects with the family's youngest son in an encounter that will reshape her life yet again.
Notes: Title from title screens ; parallel title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Based on the story "Victoria and the Staveneys" by Doris Lessing.

Wide screen.

Special features: Three short films by Jean Paul Civeyrac - Louise, Sunday (2011); An hour with Alice (2011); Françoise in spring (2012)

Photography, David Chambille; editing, Louise Narboni.

Guslagie Malanda, Nadia Moussa, Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory, Alexis Loret, Pierre Andrau.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

In French with optional English subtitles.