emilywes56 I am feeling the need to write something about this film. In terms of cinematography, there are three basic elements that make this feauture quite brilliant. First of all, the movie is at least two hours long, making it almost impossible to shoot with one take. Unbelievably, with numerous changing locations and the camera following the main characters all the time, director achieves it. He certainly creates a chilling and fiery atmosphere while we get to know Victoria, Sonne, Boxer, Blinker and Fuß. We are with them along their journey between everyday life and their dramatic "adventures" and that feeling emanates from camera on hand and long take troughout the whole film. It also results from the amazingly naturalistic way of their conversations -sometimes German, sometimes English- and their way of getting to know each other, their way of having fun walking in the streets of Berlin at night time. The realistic and improvisational dialogue between Victoria and her new German friends, creates the proper ground for the viewer to be absorbed by this massive story. Lastly, I strongly believe that these exact series of events -the first meeting, the connection and the unfair ending of this relationship- is something real, something that can happen, under certain circumstances. Victoria is a simple story about one night in Berlin and the day after. However, the way that this story becomes so real, so intense, so significant is because the plot is so well-put together. We let ourselves travel with Victoria, have fun and take the most difficult decisions about our -and her- survival.

ranmanolovart This is my first review here. This is what cinema is. This is true masterpiece! This is art. Can't recommend more! Don't ever doubt if this is worth your time. Simply sit down and watch it. It will blow you away. Acting is pure class and the movie rhythm, music and directing is superb.

rdoyle29 A young Spanish woman living in Berlin meets some German guys while leaving a dance club leading to an all-night odyssey culminating in crime and violence. The gimmick here is that the entire movie was shot in one continuous take. It's an amazing accomplishment given the variety of settings and the extended action climax, but one that works against the film quite often. There's, by necessity, a lot of scenes of the characters travelling and they tend to improvise repetitive dialogue during the downtime. It drags down the momentum of a film that should be about mounting tension. It's still a mostly good film that's a masterful technical achievement.

watson-james-902-282983 This movie was a genuinely hard one for me to decide on my opinion for, because it was by far one of the best movies I've ever come across, in terms of cinematography and style. And it wasn't the "one-take" part that impressed me the most (although it was part of it), but all of the other touches that went with it. For example, most releases tend not to include subtitles for what the German-speaking people are saying, which means that, unless you can speak the language yourself (I can't), then you're basically in the same place as young Victoria. You have no idea what's going on, what everyone else is saying, and, in turn, no idea what's about to happen until it happens.Then there was the seamlessness of the filming combined with the overall chaos of the film; first off, the dialogue is stilted and quite difficult to follow, and not just because of the language barrier - they're talking naturally, and most of what they're saying is improvised. It almost feels like you're there with them, trying to follow a rowdy conversation that you cannot quite remember how it started. And then there's the fact that, occasionally, someone will make a mistake, which ranges from the not-so-serious (Fredrick Lau accidentally dropping the cigarette that was handed to him and making up for it by getting all sullen) to the almost fatal (that part where Laia Costa accidentally took the wrong turning and almost drove right into a crowd of camera crew, prompting panic in the car and her to start cursing in Spanish). It was things like that that made the one-take style so effective. And it was what drew me to the film.However, as mentioned in the title, it was not without its flaws. And the pretty big one was the plot of the film. Let me be fair; it was the second half I'm complaining about. In the beginning, when it was just a Spanish girl, alone, with a low-paying job she has to go to in a couple of hours, following the rowdy group of German guys that she can barely understand through the streets of Berlin and getting on so well with them was just beautiful. Because I've been there. It felt relatable. But the second half didn't just feel awfully contrived. It was awfully contrived. It suddenly lost all sense of realism and felt like we were drifting from a perfectly fantastic story into a cliché-ridden, rubbish version of a heist movie. I genuinely found myself wishing that we could go back to the epilepsy-inducing strobe lights of the nightclub that I could barely watch at the beginning.That said, it was still a great movie. And I'd particularly like to highlight Laia Costa's performance. She was definitely the stand-out of the film, and by far my favourite. Especially the way she ended the film. And, if I may, she has such an amazing smile.