In Bed with Victoria

2016 1h 37m FR

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5.9

MID

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85%

FRESH

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METACRITIC

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6.2

IMDB

★5.9TMDB · 515🍅85%Rotten Tomatoes●58Metacritic★6.2IMDB · 5,515

ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

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Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her life is about to take a new turn.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Virginie Efira
Victoria Spick
Vincent Lacoste
Samuel Mallet
Melvil Poupaud
Vincent Kossarski
Laurent Poitrenaux
David
Laure Calamy
Christelle, Victoria's Lawyer
Alice Daquet
Eve
Julie Moulier
Judge
Elsa Wolliaston
Clairvoyant

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Justine Triet
Writers: Justine Triet
Languages: English, French
Countries: France

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ERA

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Released 10 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Justine Triet, shot by Simon Beaufils. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Laurent Sénéchal shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Virginie Efira and Vincent Lacoste and Melvil Poupaud carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt5078214 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Justine Triet directs. Simon Beaufils behind the camera. Laurent Sénéchal cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in English, French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 10 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
3Directed by Justine Triet, shot by Simon Beaufils. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Laurent Sénéchal shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Virginie Efira and Vincent Lacoste and Melvil Poupaud carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt5078214 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Classified under 27 themes, including "france", "ex husband", "lawsuit", "trial".

The technical file

Cinematography: Simon Beaufils
Editing: Laurent Sénéchal
Production design: Olivier Meidinger
Costume design: Charlotte Vaysse
Makeup / hair: Charlotte Desnos
VFX supervisor: Niranjan Siva
Sound: Simon Apostolou
Runtime: 97 min · 1h 37m
Status: Released
Box office: $4,971,428
Original language: FR
IMDB: In Bed with Victoria (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes: 85% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 58/100
IMDB rating: 6.2/10 · 5,515 votes
MPAA: Not Rated

Awards

3 wins & 9 nominations total

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What people are saying

CinemaSerf2024-05-18
★ 6/10
"Victoria" (Virginie Efira) hasn't her problems to seek! She's a divorced lawyer with custody of two children and a messy and fairly fluid love life. She manages to fall out with her baby sitter and so is even more stretched when the tousled young "Sam" (Vincent Lacoste) - an aspiring lawyer himself, offers to help her out. He will be her cook and bottle washer, mind the children and work with her - all for free! Suspicious, she gives him a week but soon he proves his worth and becomes a bit of an anchor for her increasingly complicated life. These complications emanate from her decision to sue her ex (the father of the children) for using her career as a template for his popular and salacious blog, and also from defending a friend and potential murderer (Melvil Poupaud) in a criminal trial that also involves another friend, too. The scene now set, this could have been quite a good scenario for Efira and the charismatic Lacoste, but the writing really lets it down. The story lurches from frying pan to not very humorous fire just once too often, the romantic melodrama is all just a bit passé and were it not for an outstanding effort from a Dalmatian with taste and a chimp adept with an iPhone, the humour would be distinctly lacking. The odd calamity in the plot would have been welcome, but here there are just too many implausibles and not enough comedy. Laure Calamy has a bit of fun as her defending counsel - French law courts are always so much more flamboyant and lively than British ones, but sadly she's not on screen often enough to make much difference. It's watchable enough, but just not that special.

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