Rodeo (2022 French film)

Rodeo (French: Rodéo) is a 2022 French drama film written and directed by Lola Quivoron. 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.

The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard program of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Coup de Coeur prize and was shortlisted for the Queer Palm.

The film won the Golden Puffin Award at the 2022 Reykjavík International Film Festival. 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. The film won the Audience Award for the Altered States program at the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival.

Rodeo was released theatrically in France on 7 September 2022 by Les Films du Losange. It is set to be released in select theatres in the United States on 17 March 2023 by Music Box Films.