Rewarded in Angoulême, this docu-fiction between laughter and tears promises to be one of the big cinema surprises of this early 2025.
French cinema unfortunately does not always have a good press with the general public, which sees it as an accumulation of comedies. However, our industry is rich and regularly offers amazing fictions. And it is not the new dramatic comedy in theaters this week that will prove the opposite. She is already one of the good cinema surprises at the start of the year.
This docu-fiction has already won several awards that testify to the effect it has caused: it was crowned public prices and received that of staging and music at the French-speaking film festival in Angoulême. And the criticism also was completely picked by this “rOad heartbreaking “(Le Parisien). This comedy” endearing “” leaves you long fogged with tears “(first). This is a work “Poetic and touching” (three colors), “an ode to funny and moving life and friendship” (Allociné).
Bicycle is a film by Mathias Mlekuz, halfway between documentary and fiction, since the story is true and there was no written dialogues. The director decided to redo the road-trip undertaken by his son Youri before his death in 2022, in order to meet the same people and bring his memory to life. Accompanied by his best friend, Philippe Rebbot, and his dog Lucky (as well as five technicians to film), he will cross Europe by bicycle from the Atlantic to Turkey.
Mathias Mlekuz and Philippe Rebbot have been friends since their meeting on the set of Belleville scooterover twenty years ago. It was therefore logical to offer his accomplice in front of and behind the camera to accompany him in this introspective quest in the footsteps of his disappeared son.
Film on mourning, on death, on guilt, paternity but also on friendship, Bicycle is a film that is both moving but also funny, since the documentary is not scripted and offers improvisations between the two friends, but also improbable funny situations. Bicycle is to be seen exclusively in the cinema. The film is released in dark theaters on Wednesday, February 26, 2025.