"Accidents are often caused by the cops, who chase, who push the riders towards death"
.
These words of the director Lola Quivoron had caused controversy.
While promoting her film
Rodeo
, selected in the Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival last May, the director spoke at Konbini about the culture of cross-country, a practice often assimilated to urban rodeos , prompting strong reactions from police unions and political figures.
While Les Films de Losange published a new trailer for the film on July 25, which is scheduled for release on September 7, the director returned to the controversy in the columns of Le
Parisien
.
"My words were caricatured, overinterpreted, extrapolated over articles and TV sets by journalists, who themselves had not seen my film
," says Lola Quivoron after explaining that she was not used to media exposure. .
Call for
"the pacification of the debates"
The 33-year-old filmmaker also questions the editing of
Konbini
's interview, which gives her the feeling that her sentence, placed at the start of the video, has been
"cut, sliced and recomposed"
.
“This type of editing transforms the meaning and produces a speech in tense flow, without real deployment of arguments, making my speech superficial, brutal, and aggressive.
There is no depth, no development, no thought.
It's shock content
, ”she judges.
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Lola Quivoron then clarifies her remarks by calling for
"the pacification of the debates"
around the subject of cross-bitumen, a practice which she confides to having seen develop from year to year in the city where she grew up, Épinay-sur-Seine and which is also practiced
“on roads without traffic, which are sometimes kilometers from city centers”
.
She assures us in passing that
"police blunders"
are not the subject of
Rodeo
: "
We don't see riders riding in town in my film, nor do we see any chases with the police who never appear."
The director concludes by explaining that she wanted, through her film, to show
"the immense passion that these young people have for cross-country, this bubbling desire that pushes them to regroup on lines, to unite, and to escape in the cries of the engines, the speed and the acrobatic figures »
.
A favorite of the jury in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes, the film was a resounding success with critics.
“It's shocked, feverish, dangerous, lethal.
But so alive!”
, we wrote here about this film in theaters on September 7, 2022.
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Tirailleurs
and
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