Rodeo (French: Rodéo) is a 2022 Canadian drama film, directed and co-written by Joëlle Desjardins Paquette.^[1] The film stars Maxime Le Flaguais as Serge, a truck driver who takes his young daughter Lily (Lilou Roy-Lanouette) on a cross-Canada road trip to attend a truck rodeo in Alberta, against the context of a dispute with his ex-wife (Whitney Lafleur) over custody of her.^[2]

The film went into production in August 2021.^[2] Although not directly based on their real lives, the film was inspired in part by Desjardins Paquette's father, a professional truck mechanic with Kenworth's operations in Montreal.^[3]

The film premiered on November 8, 2022 at the Cinemania film festival.^[4] It later screened in the Borsos Competition at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival.^[5] Commercial release is slated for early 2023.

Awards

At Whistler, Desjardins Paquette won the award for Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film and Roy-Lanouette received an honourable mention for Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film.^[6] It was also named the winner of the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Feature Film by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.^[7]

The film received two nominations at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for Best Lead Performance in a Film (Le Flaguais) and the John Dunning Best First Feature Award.^[8] It was a Prix Iris nominee for Best First Film at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards.^[9]

References

External links

• Rodeo at IMDb

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