Year 2015 Theatrical Release 2015 12 04 Video Release 2018 04 17 Studio Zeitgeist Films Genre Drama MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 95 Animated Live Action Full Synopsis Based on the story Victoria and the Staveneys by Nobel laureate and oft filmed author Doris Lessing, My Friend Victoria Mon Amie Victoria relocates its black London heroine to contemporary Paris while retaining her essential, puppet like passivity. As an 8 year old orphan, Victoria Keylia Achie Beguie is taken into the home of a white bourgeois family for a single night, fueling her dreams of comfort and privilege for the rest of her life. As an adult now beautifully played by Guslagie Malanda , she reconnects with the youngest son of her host family, bearing his child after a brief affair. All the while she drifts from job to job, independent yet lacking focus except for that one night from her childhood and its revelations. Director Jean Paul Civeyrac manages a treatise on race and class that's subtle, moving, and refreshingly non didactic, refusing to reduce the characters to symbols or dilute the richness of Lessing's prose. Director Jean Paul Civeyrac Cast Jean Paul Civeyrac; Mon Amie Victoria; Keylia Achie Beguie; Guslagie Malanga