Dir. Lola Quivoron
2022 | 106 mins | France
French with English subtitles
Julie Ledru, Yannis Lafki, Antonia Buresi

SHOWING TIMES:

• Fri 12 May: 8pm* + Introduction and recorded Q&A
• Sat 13 May: 8.30pm
• Sun 14 May: 7.45pm
• Mon 15 May: 5.30pm
• Tue 16 May: 10.45am
• Tue 16 May: 8pm
• Wed 17 May: 8pm
• Thu 18 May: 2pm*

* This screening will include Descriptive Subtitles.

Descriptive Subtitles shows dialogue and information on other significant sounds. For example: when a phone rings, allowing D/deaf and hard of hearing customers to fully access the film. Find out more about our access here >> 

Newcomer Julie Ledru excels as a young tearaway with a passion for motorbikes who finds herself drawn into a local bike gang’s skeezy dealings.

Julia (Julie Ledru) lives on a social housing estate with her mother and brother. Relations at home are fraught and Julie’s only escape is urban dirt-biking, but coming from an underprivileged household she hasn’t the money to own her own. So, she steals them; and she’s pretty good at it. It’s while on one of these stolen bikes that she encounters the B-More gang, a group who revels in the world of urban rodeos, a sub-culture of motorbike fanatics whose activities reach far beyond the stunts they revel in. Initially suspicious of Julie’s presence, her hustling abilities draw her into the fold, close to the gang’s imprisoned leader and his tough but troubled wife Ophélie (Antonia Buresi). As she becomes more embroiled in the gang’s underhand dealings, Julia reveals plans for a heist that could net them a small fortune but carries with it no small amount of danger.

Lola Quivoron’s feature directorial debut is a rites-of-passage drama that launches itself into the crime genre at full throttle, packed with incredible bike stunts by stunt coordinator Mathieu Lardot, who has worked on major action films like Spectre and Mission Impossible: Fallout. But at its heart it is a fascinating character study of Julia, an outsider desperately looking to belong. A biker discovered by the filmmaker on Instagram, Ledru is a compelling presence, displaying a quiet intensity that’s all the more impressive for this being her first screen appearance, Ledru imbues Julia with a delicate balance of independence and neediness, whose reserve masks an inner rage.

The opening screening on Friday 12th May at 8pm with feature a recorded Q&A with Dir. Lola Quivoron, and will be introduced by Reclaim the Frame‘s Robyn Lawrence.

TRIPLE F-RATED:

Directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more >>