“I was born with a bike between my legs,” says Julie Ledru in new film Rodeo
, flashing a gap-toothed smile at some poor dupe soon to be relieved of his motorbike. Part-feminist crime thriller, part-youth-culture exposé à la Andrea Arnold’s, Lola Quivoron’s Cannes breakout stars Ledru in her screen debut as Julia, a reckless young French-Guadeloupean woman who infiltrates the world of, a stunt-riding subculture imported to France from the US sometime in the 00s.
Congratulations, Lola and Julie! Your film has been a big success at this year’s festival, how does it feel to be loved? Lola, this is your second movie set in the world of cross-bitume, after 2016’s short film “Au Loin Baltimore”. What’s the fascination with this scene? Julia performs sage-burning rituals to ward off evil, how important was the spiritual dimension to the character?
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