It is said to be a new kind of French cinema. Post-post-millennial movies. After titanCannes again generated a new case: rodeo, by Lola Quivoron, one of last year’s Un Certain Regard cases. Coming from short films, visuals and radical attitudes, the director became an instant celebrity, especially when she championed this meta-feminist story behind the scenes of illegal motorcycle racing.
rodeo it is therefore a kind of secret invitation to a counterculture: asphalt, the smell of oil, speed and female independence. All from the body of a wild young woman: Julia, passionate about speed on a motorcycle and counting on being integrated into a group of fringe motorcycle racers. Sometimes their outlaw existence is used by the leader of the group. Amidst the tragedy looming over speeding tickets, Julia will always be a body claiming her place. In this world of noisy energy, we think about crazy max and in urban westerns, but also in titanby Julia Ducournau, as the director admits in a conversation in Paris.
Source: DN
