As an admirer of Virginie Efira she was the sole selling point for me; Poupaud I can take or leave and I didn't really know anyone else. My main disappointment was the fact that Efira was playing somewhat coarser than usual, by which I mean that I am used to seeing her as a beautiful woman with a soft, gentle quality verging on the naive and here she is verging on a control freak with a much harder edge to her appearance. Having said that the film itself has much to recommend it and is probably multi-layered which means it may stand at least one more viewing. Efira is more than up to the task of playing a hard-nosed avocat but seems a little to quick to allow an ex client to move in as her 'assistant' despite no legal training and not only that to let him sleep on her couch. Slightly unrealistic then but well acted by its leading lady.
Review of Victoria
