The Upcoming
  • Cinema & Tv
    • Movie reviews
    • Show reviews
    • Interviews
    • Film festivals
      • Berlin
      • Cannes
      • Sundance London
      • Venice
      • London
  • Music
    • Live music
    • Album reviews
    • Interviews
  • Food & Drinks
    • News & Features
    • Restaurant & bar reviews
    • Interviews & Recipes
  • Theatre
    • Fringe
    • Vault Festival
    • Interviews
  • Art
  • Travel & Lifestyle
  • Interviews
  • Fashion & Beauty
    • Accessories
    • Beauty
    • News & Features
    • Shopping & Trends
    • Tips & How-tos
    • Fashion weeks
      • London Fashion Week
      • London Fashion Week Men’s
      • New York Fashion Week
      • Milan Fashion Week
      • Paris Fashion Week
      • Haute Couture
  • Join the team
    • Editorial unit
    • Our writers
    • Join the team
    • Join the mailing list
    • Support us
    • Contact us
  • Competitions
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Instagram

  • YouTube

  • RSS

Culture Interviews Cinema & Tv

“As a homosexual woman, I’ve felt oppressed by society’s violence”: Lola Quivoron and Julie Ledru on Rodeo

“As a homosexual woman, I’ve felt oppressed by society’s violence”: Lola Quivoron and Julie Ledru on Rodeo
24th April 2023
Avatar photo
Sarah Bradbury
Avatar
Sarah Bradbury
24 April 2023

Movie and show review

Sarah Bradbury

Rodeo

Release date

28th April 2023

Rodeo is the feature debut from French writer-director Lola Quivoron, which not only played in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2022 but picked up the Coup de Coeur prize. Her genre-defying film stars first-time actress and real-life biker Julie Ledru as Julia, a fierce and fearless woman passionate about “urban rodeos” who finds herself in a man’s world in the suburbs of Paris as she seeks to ingratiate herself in a gang of dirt bike riders. That Quivoron spent years seeking to understand this underground community – indeed, she already based her short Au Loin, Baltimore in the setting – is palpable on-screen, with her adventurous and bold take on a Western, infused with grease and the growling of engines.

The Upcoming sat down with the filmmaker and her star during Cannes to hear about the allure of the hyper-masculine motocross world, Quirvron’s relationship with Ledru and how the movie explores gender, class and identity. 

Sarah Bradbury

Rodeo is released in UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema on 28th April 2023. Read our five-star review here.

Watch the trailer for Rodeo here:

Related Itemsinterviewrodeo

More in Cinema & Tv

Candy Cane Lane

★★★★★
Guy Lambert
Read More

Eileen

★★★★★
Selina Sondermann
Read More

Wish

★★★★★
Guy Lambert
Read More

Girl

★★★★★
Umar Ali
Read More

Archie

★★★★★
Matthew McMillan
Read More

“We are going to see Harry Bosch in dimensions we’ve never seen before”: Michael Connelly on Bosch – Legacy season two

Tilley Bennett
Read More

Wish: On the red carpet with Ariana DeBose, Jennifer Lee, Fawn Veerasunthorn and Chris Buck

Sarah Bradbury
Read More

Maestro

★★★★★
Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor
Read More

The Eternal Daughter

★★★★★
Selina Sondermann
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Movie and show review

Sarah Bradbury

Rodeo

Release date

28th April 2023

  • Popular

  • Latest

  • TOP PICKS

  • The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Eileen
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Candy Cane Lane
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Candy Cane Lane
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Eileen
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Wish
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Girl
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Wish
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen at Bush Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Girl
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
The Upcoming
  • Contact us
  • Join the team
  • Subscribe to the mailing list
  • Support us
  • Writing for The Upcoming

Copyright © 2011-2023 FL Media