My Friend Victoria

My Friend Victoria (2014)

Mon amie Victoria

Victoria, a little black girl aged 8 from a humble background, happens to spend the night with the bourgeois family of Thomas, one of her classmates. Years later, they see each other again and Marie is the fruit of their fleeting relationship. But Victoria decides not to tell Thomas and raises her child alone. When Marie turns seven, Victoria decides that her daughter must have a better future and again turns to this family that she lost sight of long ago.

Date of release
2014-12-31
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Casting

Interesting facts

My Friend Victoria is a French/Belgian film, directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac, released in December 2014. It stars Guslagie Malanda, Nadia Moussa, Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory and Pierre Andrau.

Development

Doris Lessing's Victoria and the Staveneys was first published in her collection The Grandmothers (2003). Writer and director Jean-Paul Civeyrac changed the setting of Lessing's story from London to Paris.

Guslagie Malanda had no film experience before she was cast in the title role; she went to an audition after a friend working on the project told her that she "might be a good fit".

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