Rodeo (French: Rodéo) is a 2022 French drama film written and directed by Lola Quivoron, in her directorial debut. It stars Julie Ledru as Julia, a young motorcycle thief in the outskirts of Bordeaux.
The film had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2022, where it won the section's Coup de Coeur prize and was nominated for the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm. It was theatrically released in France on 7 September 2022 by Les Films du Losange.
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Plot
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.
Cast
Julie Ledru as Julia
Yanis Lafki as Kaïs
Antonia Buresi as Ophélie
Louis Sotton as Ben
Rukkmini Ghosh as
Junior Correia as Manel
Ahmed Hamdi as Mous
Dave Nsaman as Abra
Mustapha Dianka as Clark
Mohamed Bettahar as Amine
Chris Makodi as William
Cody Schroeder as Kylian
Sébastien Schroeder as Domino
Release
The film won 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 cowinner 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.
Rodeo was released theatrically in France on 7 September 2022 by Les Films du Losange. It was released in select theatres in the United States on 17 March 2023 by Music Box Films.
Remake
In May 2024, StudioCanal and The Picture Company purchased rights to remake the film in America.
