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Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK
I'd give this an 8 as a film, a 10 for cinematography & a 12 for balls. Not only is it shot in one continuous take, it's done so over 22 (wildly different!) locations. Incredible.
Director Sebastian Schipper filmed three takes on different days and claims the first two weren't good. I'd love to see them. I recommend the film to anyone remotely cinephilic.
I'd love thoughts on this (from people who have and have not seen the film): how many people who watch the film (without knowing) would realise it was filmed in one take? I'd like to think I'd notice but I'm not sure.
A pet peeve is the academy & other awards giving bodies ignoring 'minor films' like this. The cinematography was incredible. I haven't seen The Revenant which won the cinematography Oscar but the work in Victoria was surely more worthy of a nomination than Carol, Sicario or The Hateful Eight (most of which was in a single room FFS!). Similarly no Oscar nomination for Ralph Fiennes's perfect performance as a bon vivant rocket in A Bigger Splash - there's a list of the twenty "best" films of the year & only actors/cinematographers/directors from those twenty films are eligible for an award.
I didn't care much for Victoria, wrote about it here in January. For a better action movie with a female protagonist in Europe, try Run Lola Run.
On cinematography, that's not really how it works. I could see an argument for it with Victoria but I didn't think it was particularly memorable and I would definitely favor Hateful Eight (which I also don't like overall). It's not relevant whether it took place in a single room or not (Hateful has enough beautifully shot outdoor snow scenes to make that complaint irrelevant anyway), you're confusing basically "most" cinematography with "best" cinematography as Film Crit Hulk would say. (Example: people are quick to jump to a flashy role like the Joker or a drug addict for Best Actor awards, with no thought to understated performances. "Most" acting, not "Best" acting. Costumes are often some 18th century period piece, etc.)