The Little Queen (2014)

Original title

La petite reine

Directed by

Alexis Durand-Brault

Genre

sport film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young cyclist gets caught doping just before a championship race. The film follows her and her coach as they face the fallout and struggle with the scandal.

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What happens

The Little Queen (French: La Petite Reine) is a Canadian sports drama film, directed by Alexis Durand-Brault and released in 2014. Based on the true story of cyclist Geneviève Jeanson, whose career as a professional cyclist was derailed by a doping scandal, the film stars Laurence Leboeuf as Julie Arseneau, a cyclist who is caught doping just a few races short of the championship race, and Patrice Robitaille as her coach. The film premiered theatrically in June 2014. The film received four Prix Jutra nominations at the 17th Jutra Awards, for Best Actor (Robitaille), Best Actress (Leboeuf), Best Sound (Mario Auclair, Stéphane Bergeron, Marcel Pothier and Christian Rivest) and Best Editing (Louis-Philippe Rathé). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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