| Rodeo | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Joëlle Desjardins Paquette |
| Producer: | Sarah Mannering Fanny Drew |
| Starring: | Maxime Le Flaguais Lilou Roy-Lanouette |
| Cinematography: | Juliette A. Lossky |
| Editing: | Elric Robichon |
| Studio: | Colonelle Films |
| Distributor: | Entract Films |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
Rodeo (fr|Rodéo) is a 2022 Canadian drama film, directed and co-written by Joëlle Desjardins Paquette.[1] The film stars Maxime Le Flaguais as Serge, a truck driver who takes his young daughter Lily (Lilou Roy-Lanouette) on a cross-Canada road trip to attend a truck rodeo in Alberta, against the context of a dispute with his ex-wife (Whitney Lafleur) over custody of her.[2]
The film went into production in August 2021.[2] Although not directly based on their real lives, the film was inspired in part by Desjardins Paquette's father, a professional truck mechanic with Kenworth's operations in Montreal.[3]
The film premiered on November 8, 2022 at the Cinemania film festival.[4] It later screened in the Borsos Competition at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival.[5] Commercial release is slated for early 2023.
At Whistler, Desjardins Paquette won the award for Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film and Roy-Lanouette received an honourable mention for Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film.[6] It was also named the winner of the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Feature Film by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.[7]
The film received two nominations at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for Best Lead Performance in a Film (Le Flaguais) and the John Dunning Best First Feature Award.[8] It was a Prix Iris nominee for Best First Film at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards.[9]