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Viktoria
Directed by
Maya Vitkova
Not Rated
2014
2h 35m
Family
,
Drama
6.4
81%
60%
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Unwanted by her mother, Viktoria is being born with no umbilical cord and doesn't need Boryana until the hardships of life bind them together.
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Cast of Viktoria
Irmena Chichikova
Boryana
Daria Vitkova
Viktoria (2nd age)
Kalina Vitkova
Viktoria (3rd age)
Mariana Krumova
Dima
Dimo Dimov
Ivan
Georgi Spasov
Todor Zhivkov
Anastasia Ingilizova
Svetoslav Draganov
Sando
Simeon Tsolov
Stefcho (2nd age)
Ivo Karamanski
Stefcho (3rd age)
Miroslav Pashov
Socialist Man
Maya Vitkova
Director / Writer / Producer
Viktoria Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
The film coheres and builds momentum, its striking images in the service of a poetic narrative.
Detroit News
Tom Long
This is writer-director Maya Vitkova's first feature and she deftly blends the mundane, the operatic and the bittersweet.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The symbolism is milked dry. It doesn't help that all of the actors, including Katerina Angelova as the young Viktoria and Irmena Chichikova as her hard-bitten mother, seem near-catatonic.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Inventively surreal virtues mark Maya Vitkova's ambitious debut feature as the arrival of a bracing cinematic talent.
The Young Folks
Nathanael Hood
... symbols can't exist in a vacuum or they become meaningless. Or, in the case of Viktoria, pointless.
Chicago Reader
Dmitry Samarov
Long on portentous symbolism and short on coherent storytelling.
Newcity
Ray Pride
A girl is a woman is a country in the bold thunderclap of Bulgarian filmmaker Maya Vitkova's magical mixed-genre widescreen debut feature... History and family and faith and delicious delirium.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Poignant, offbeat and visually striking, but occasionally drags and overstays its welcome.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
But defects and all, navels or not, Viktoria remains a distinctive, trenchant social-political mock epic about a little big girl.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A highly stylized Bulgarian film about the yearning of a reluctant mother and the odd experiences of her unconventional daughter.
NPR
Ella Taylor
A powerful maternal melodrama spanning three generations of implacable women bound by blood, spilled milk and the tumult of a world in transition.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
As more and more perfect shots drift by, the reality of the characters and their relationships dissipates, and we're left with just picturesque moods.
The Film Stage
Michael Snydel
Vitkova wrangles this grandiose story of political upheaval into a vibrant piece of filmmaking that feels singular and overwhelming.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
An impressive display of stylistic control and directorial vision, even if it doesn't always hold together.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The disconnection between the various characters is so immediately accepted as such a foregone conclusion that nothing ever seems to be at stake.
Brooklyn Magazine
Elina Alter
It's still a matter of some celebration that Viktoria screened at Sundance in 2014, the first Bulgarian movie to make it to that specific West.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Vitkova's spare, precise yet richly textured images sing with restrained emotion and natural metaphors and catch the characters in self-revealing gestures of an overwhelming intimacy.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
The general tone is one of hushed poetry and quiet drollness with an occasionally absurdist edge. Crucially, the film doesn't want to be funny simply to avoid being constantly bleak; quite the contrary is true.
IndieWire
Emma Myers
Vitkova renders this highly personal story with great pathos that showcases her truly inventive sense of humor.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
So much of "Viktoria" heralds such a fascinating filmic sensibility that one eagerly looks forward to whatever Vitkova does next.
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