The jury's favorite in the Un certain regard category at Cannes,
Rodeo
by Lola Quivoron will be released in theaters on September 7, while accidents related to urban rodeo are at the heart of the news.
Invited to France Inter for the promotion of her film on Thursday September 1, the director returned to the controversy sparked by an interview given last May when she presented her film at Cannes.
“Accidents are often caused by cops, chasing riders and pushing them to their death.”
The sentence, pronounced on the Croisette in front of Konbini's camera, has far from gone unnoticed.
Asked about the culture of cross bitumen, a practice placed in the background of her film and often likened to urban rodeos, Lola Quivoron had aroused strong reactions from police unions and political figures.
In July, the 33-year-old filmmaker insisted on qualifying in the columns of Le
Parisien
, arguing that her remarks had been "
caricatured, overinterpreted, extrapolated over articles and TV sets
" and pointing to the editing of Konbini's video .
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Rodeo
does not deal with police blunders
“Cross-bitumen is not the subject of my film”
Thursday, September 1, it is at the microphone of France Inter that Lola Quivoron responds again to the controversy.
“This sentence does not reflect what I think.
It has been highlighted, twisted a little in all directions, caricatured, a lot;
and this is only one facet of reality”,
confided the director
.
Questioned by Léa Salamé, who recalls that a little girl was seriously injured at the beginning of August during an urban rodeo in Pontoise, the director who herself practiced cross bitumen, adds:
"It's not because I'm pointing this reality that I forget all those that exist, [...] and all those that are in the news every week.
If Léa Salamé like Lola Quivoron want to differentiate the cross bitumen, usually practiced on roads without traffic, often far from city centers, wild rodeos, the film inevitably echoes this dangerous practice which multiplies.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has also announced that he wants to intensify controls throughout France to fight against these
“often criminal acts which come to kill, which very seriously injure women and children”
.
A news that comes, according to Lola Quivoron,
"invisibilize the most important".
"
Cross bitumen is the backdrop of my film, it's not the subject of my film,
" she recalls.
What's interesting is putting cinema back at the center, the fact that it's mythology, it's epic, it's fiction and it's about a woman's journey.
The controversy will quickly disappear, the film will remain.
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