| Rodeo | |
| Director: | Lola Quivoron |
| Producer: | Charles Gillibert |
| Cinematography: | Raphaël Vandenbussche |
| Editing: | Rafael Torres Calderón |
| Music: | Kelman Duran |
| Studio: | CG Cinéma |
| Distributor: | Les Films du Losange Music Box Films (United States) |
| Runtime: | 104 minutes |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Gross: | $151,785[1] |
Rodeo (fr|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]