The actor’s directing debut has been acclaimed for reimagining the ‘trauma plot’. Victor discusses bootcamp with Barry Jenkins – and what you can learn from working in a bridal shop
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Eva Victor is a writer-director and actor whose fearless character-forward comedic sensibility has cemented them as an undeniable triple threat to watch. Victor has boldly established themself as a singular emerging cinematic voice with their feature directorial debut Sorry, Baby, which world premiered to massive acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, before closing the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes and earning further acclaim out of both this year’s Sydney and Melbourne International Film Festivals.
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The Venice Film Festival kicks off the fall fest season Wednesday and moves awards season into another gear.
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Melbourne international film festival 2025: the 10 movies you must see this year
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Eva Victor wrote, directed and stars in Sorry, Baby, a story of a professor who is recovering from sexual assault. It is a story that layers grief with humour, and deals with trauma in a way that values hope and honesty over dramatisation. I loved the way this story was told, so patient and nuanced, that I found myself looking for other films that Victor has directed. You’ll be as surprised as I was learning that this is their directorial debut. This movie is in my top three must-sees of the festival. You cannot miss this when it comes out later this year.
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The star took on the most intense, challenging role of his career in Benny Safdie’s new film. He speaks for the first time about how he pulled it off: “I realized that maybe these opportunities weren’t coming my way because I was too scared to explore this stuff.”
Consult the article Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Tuesday morning, when he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs August 27-September 6.
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Pete Davidson is known as a comedian. He made a name for himself on Saturday Night Live and has starred in some great comedies since, but now he's taking a dive into the world of horror, and his latest movie really will have you afraid of the fourth floor.
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Sometimes, life is truly stranger than fiction. That turned out to be the case for one particularly whimsical, wild criminal robbing McDonald's in North Carolina during the early 2000s.
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