In Bed with Victoria
Synopsis
Victoria is a criminal lawyer whose love life is null and void. At a wedding, she catches up with her old friend Vincent and runs into Sam, a loser she successfully defended in court. The next day, Vincent is accused of attempting to murder his girlfriend. The only witness is the victim’s dog. Victoria reluctantly agrees to defend Vincent and hires Sam to be her au pair boy. Thus begins a series of cataclysms in Victoria’s life.
Screenplay
Justine Triet
Director of Photography
Simon Beaufils
Film Editing
Laurent Sénéchal
Producer
Emmanuel Chaumet
Production Company
Ecce Films
Cast
Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud, Laurent Poitrenaux, Laure Calamy, Alice Daquet
Трајање / Duration
98’
Justine Triet graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She then made two films which explore the place of the individual within a group: On the Spot (2007), shot during student protests, and Solférino (2008), made during the Presidential elections. In 2009, she made Shadows in the House in a township of Saõ Paulo. Her first fiction short, Two Ships, won a number of awards at French and international festivals, including the European Film Award at the 2012 Berlinale and the Grand Prix at both Angers and Belfort, and was shortlisted for the 2013 César nominations. Her first feature, Age of Panic, was screened in Cannes in 2013 as part of the ACID selection and nominated for a César in 2014 in the category of Best First Film. In Bed with Victoria is her second feature.
