Jean-Paul Civeyrac : 2014
My Friend Victoria
A complex, poignant portrait of two young women in contemporary Paris. It follows them from childhood into adulthood, with the older Fanny narrating the story of her friend and adoptive sister. Victoria is an eight-year-old black girl from a poor background, who by chance discovers the life of a bourgeois family and marvels at it. Years later, she meets Thomas again, one of the sons of this family. Marie is born of their short love story. Victoria decides not to tell Thomas about her and raises her child alone. When Marie is seven years old, Victoria decides that her daughter should have a better future than she did and turns to this family she had lost sight of. As Fanny and Victoria's destinies take them in separate directions, the drama explores racial identity in contemporary France, and questions of class, privilege and blinkered liberal racism. Adapted from the novel Victoria et les Staveney by Doris Lessing. Jean-Paul Civeyrac's feature premiered at London Film Festival 2014.
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