
Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979, curiously missing a belly button, and is declared the country's Baby of the Decade. Pampered by her mother state until the age of nine, Viktoria's decade of notoriety comes crashing down with the rest of European communism. But can political collapse and the hardship of new times finally bring Viktoria and her reluctant mother clo... (Full plot summary below)
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Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979, curiously missing a belly button, and is declared the country's Baby of the Decade. Pampered by her mother state until the age of nine, Viktoria's decade of notoriety comes crashing down with the rest of European communism. But can political collapse and the hardship of new times finally bring Viktoria and her reluctant mother closer together?
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| Detroit NewsTom LongThis is writer-director Maya Vitkova's first feature and she deftly blends the mundane, the operatic and the bittersweet. |
| NPRElla TaylorA powerful maternal melodrama spanning three generations of implacable women bound by blood, spilled milk and the tumult of a world in transition. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Charles MudedeThere is a lot of poetry in this Viktoria, and it has a sequence of news and video footage that, with a dramatic score, brilliantly captures the year that launched the world we now live in, 1989. |
| Film Comment MagazineMichael SragowBut defects and all, navels or not, Viktoria remains a distinctive, trenchant social-political mock epic about a little big girl. |
| Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe 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. |
| Chicago ReaderDmitry SamarovLong on portentous symbolism and short on coherent storytelling. |