After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. Prudence’s newfound lease of freedom becomes complicated when she falls for a boy Franck who wastes no time in taking advantage of her naivety...
Acting
Léa Seydoux's volcanic stillness before she was famous.
Cinematography
Rungis at night — industrial poetry on two wheels.
Direction
Zlotowski's debut already knows women suffer beautifully.
Director
Rebecca Zlotowski
Léa Seydoux
Prudence Friedmann
Anaïs Demoustier
Sonia Cohen
Johan Libéreau
Franck
Nicolas Maury
Daniel Cohen
Guillaume Gouix
Reynald
Agathe Schlencker
Maryline Santamaria
Anna Sigalevitch
Frédérique Friedmann
Marie Matheron
Delphine
Marina Tomé
Nelly Cohen
Carlo Brandt
Michel Cohen
Michaël Abiteboul
Gérard
Swann Arlaud
Jean-Pierre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Léa Seydoux was 24 playing 17; her own mother died when she was young, lending the role ghostly autobiography.
The Rungis circuit was a real subculture of 2000s Parisian youth — Zlotowski filmed documentary-style with actual riders.
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