PANAJI

The Cinephile Film Club of Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) will be screening the German thriller film ‘Victoria’ (2015) at Maquinez Palace on Thursday, June 21 at 6:30 p.m. 

The screening will be hosted by renowned film critic Sachin Chatte. 

Directed by Sebastian Schipper, the duration of the film is two hours and 10 minutes. 

Shot in one single continuous take on the streets of Berlin, Victoria was lauded for being a remarkable feat in film making. Consisting of just 12 pages of a script, it demanded tremendous improvisation from the actors since there were no cuts. The technicalities aside, Victoria makes for a compelling ride – a young Spanish girl, who works in a cafe, befriends a bunch of guys in a night club. What starts off as an innocuous meeting, ends up becoming an edge of the seat thriller. The film was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival where the cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, was awarded a Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution to cinematography.

About the film, The Guardian said “Victoria manages to overwhelm in ways that few films do.”