In Bed with Victoria

In Bed with Victoria (Victoria, 2016) is a French comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Justine Triet. Victoria is a thirtysomething criminal lawyer, divorced, raising two daughters, and far better at untangling other people's lives than her own.

Virginie Efira carries the film as a sharp, exhausted woman teetering on a breakdown. At a friend's wedding she runs into Vincent, an old friend now accused of stabbing his girlfriend, and Sam, a former client. She agrees to defend Vincent in court; Sam ends up babysitting her kids. Meanwhile an ex-lover blogs every detail of their bedroom history, and it lands in evidence at trial.

Triet skips the cozy rom-com beats for something pricklier, blurring the line between Victoria's caseload and her chaotic private life. Efira is the whole show here, making Victoria as charming as she is impossible to live with. This one is for viewers who prefer dry French wit to a tidy Hollywood ending. Stream In Bed with Victoria (2016) online on iFILM.