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RODEO (2022)

Run Time: 1:45:00
Producer: CG Cinéma
A Film By: Lola Quivoron
Writer: Antonia Buresi, Lola Quivoron
Key Cast: Julie Ledru, Yannis Lafki, Antonia Buresi

FILM MAKERS

Rodeo (French: Rodéo) is a 2022 premiered in the Un Certain Regard program of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Coup de Coeur prize and was shortlisted for the Queer Palm. It went on to win the Golden Puffin Award at the 2022 Reykjavík International Film Festival. At the Seville European Film Festival, the film won the Cinephiles of the Future award and Ledru was co-winner with Zar Amir Ebrahimi of the award for Best Actress. The film won the Audience Award for the Altered States program at the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival.

SUMMARY

Julia, a young woman living in social housing who has a poor relationship with her mother; passionate about the sport of motocross, she tries to gain the opportunity to participate in the sport by posing as a buyer on shopping websites so that she can take bikes out for test rides. As she becomes drawn deeper into the urban motocross scene, however, she begins to participate in a motorcycle theft ring.

Note: Most of the actors are non-professional, including of the main character, Julia, played by Julie Ledru. Writer/director Lola Quivoron has been immersed in the urban rodeo world for a while and had realized that all riders were men. She had been looking for some time for her lead, and stumbled onto the Inconnue_du_95 account on Instagram. When she met her, she realized that her life was very much like her character’s, so much that some details of her life ended up in the movie.

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In NYC? You can see the film at the beautiful Roxy Cinema on April 15th.

 

 

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