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Directed by | Lola Quivoron |
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Produced by | Charles Gillibert |
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Cinematography | Raphaël Vandenbussche |
Edited by | Rafael Torres Calderón |
Music by | Kelman Duran |
Production company | CG Cinéma |
Distributed by | Les films du losange Music Box Films (United States) |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $151,785 [1] |
Rodeo ( French: Rodéo) is a 2022 French drama film written and directed by Lola Quivoron. [2] The film stars Julie Ledru as 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. [3]
The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard program of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Coup de Coeur prize [4] and was shortlisted for the Queer Palm. [5]
The film won the Golden Puffin Award at the 2022 Reykjavík International Film Festival. [6] At the Seville European Film Festival, the film won the Cinephiles of the Future award and Ledru was cowinner with Zar Amir Ebrahimi of the award for Best Actress. [7] The film won the Audience Award for the Altered States program at the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival. [8]
Rodeo was released theatrically in France on 7 September 2022 by Les films du losange. [9] [10] It is set to be released in select theatres in the United States on 17 March 2023 by Music Box Films. [11]