Reviewed by Nancy Snipper
This film is based on the
true story of 2004 Montreal World Cup Cycling winner, Geneviève Jeanson. It is a terrible tale of a great athlete
whose awards were illegally earned because of addiction to doping and the “high
of winning”. Her team sponsored by Vita
(in reality, Rona – a Quebec hardware store chain) always wins because of their
star leader, Julie Arsenault (Laurence Leboeuf). The film details how her
trainer, JP (Patrice Robitaille) a nasty manipulator who is in charge of her
doping, shows how he is complicit in her downward spiral from the podium to the
floor; lying and covering up eventually catch up to her. Even her own doctor
confesses under pressure to the Federation that she has been needling herself
into success. An excellent film with superb acting and editing, director Alexis
Durand has made an important film that tells the story of one of Quebec’s
fallen heroes.
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