Best movie ever!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The 'thing' about this film is the one continuous shot. Which is a shame in many ways as it's got much more going for it than that. It's wonderful! The camerawork is effortless, it melts in and flows with the scene, putting the viewer at the heart of the film. Cameraman Sturla Brandth Grøvlen deserves a huge shout out. It helps that the plot unfolds beautifully, slowly introducing the cast, their story, their building relationships. There's menace, tenderness and intrigue woven into a 2 hour rollercoaster. It's very intimate with several great performances, the most staggering from Laia Costa and in short the entire thing is bloody fantastic! and yeah it's one shot, no cuts, which on top of everything else makes this very special.

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.

Wow took me almost three years to stumble onto this morsel. I googled 'best movies in Netflix you haben't seen'. It has been a very long time since I saw a truly remarkable movie. This is a must see and officially one of the greatest movie experiences in my time.Those reviewers who think Victoria's choice to go hang with these four strange dudes was unbelievable completely missed the essence of who she is. I mean I thought the same thing at first so I get that.But here it is...Victoria starts the film alone at a club w/ no friends. She hits on the bartender. No luck there so she takes her shot and leaves. She claims she has no friends. She is clearly lonely. You see it pour out if her when she plays the piano and breaks down conveying her dedication to her craft wasn't without sacrifice: a sensen of community.And so she begins the film alone, finds a taste of community she never really had with these four dudes... and ends up alone.Aside from this being a monumental technical avhievement, it is quite simply the reason I fell in love with movies in the first place. It's very difficult to 'wow' me these days so congrats to these fine film makers.Enjoy!

Clearly one of the best movies ever made. Brilliant script - moreover so since it left room to so much improvisation - and a very addictive rhythm. For the entire 138 minutes I was immersed in the story, excited and scared and unleashed and high and crazy. It's a liberating story that adds a layer of soft nuances to your usual Clockwork Orange type of story. Super trippy, fabulous acting, great script. And the fact that it's shot in one take makes it quite a rare gem. Absolute must.