Jappeloup | |
Director: | Christian Duguay |
Producer: | Ludi Boeken Pascal Judelewicz Romain Le Grand Frédérique Dumas Geneviève Lemal Chica Benadava Walid Chammah Florian Genetet-Morel Joe Iacono Lyse Lafontaine |
Starring: | Guillaume Canet Marina Hands Daniel Auteuil |
Music: | Clinton Shorter |
Cinematography: | Ronald Plante |
Editing: | Richard Marizy |
Distributor: | Pathé Distribution |
Runtime: | 130 minutes |
Country: | France Canada |
Language: | French |
Budget: | $26.7 million |
Gross: | $14.8 million[1] |
Jappeloup is a 2013 Canadian-French film directed by Christian Duguay. In January 2014, Lou de Laâge was nominated for the Most Promising Actress award at the 39th César Awards.[2]
In the early 1980s, Pierre Durand, Jr. resigns from his career as a lawyer and becomes a professional equestrian, focusing on show jumping.[3] He purchases (1975–1991) from .[3]
Durand loses at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. However, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, he wins.[3]
It was shown at the COLCOA film festival in Los Angeles, California in 2013.[4]
For The Hollywood Reporter, the film offers "a rather classic mix of stunts and sentiment before galloping ahead to its stirring equine finale."[5]