Film Review: Victoria

October 08, 2008 The iconic actress' second feature film, "Victoria," has flashes of some of the New Wave's more notable "conventions" and motifs, and a similar fractured tone, but because it's all been done -- and emulated -- before, her road movie drama leaves no real lasting impact. European distributors and their North American art house counterparts likely will show considerable interest in this oddity; elsewhere, the stagey film will be a harder sell as it's gimmick-free, which could make marketing difficult. "Victoria" is a straight-ahead family drama about fundamentally lonely people trying to find a place they belong within the confines of a fluid world.

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