Bicycle movies have always been niche subjects, which makes it difficult to see them on the big screen. But in recent years, bicycle movies have not been discouraged, they are not 3D, nor are they conventional, the stories are different, but they are all careful.
If you haven't seen it yet, you might as well choose one or two to see over the weekend.
Cycling teenager
The Kid on the Bike (2011)
11-year-old boy Cyril (Thomas?) Doré Thomas Doret is sent to a children's welfare home, where his father, Guy (Jérémie Renier), leaves. Desperate to meet his father, Cyril tried his best to escape the custody of the school superintendent and caused a dispute. He went to the house where his father had rented before, ate the closed door, and was evicted by his neighbors. He was taken back to the welfare home by the school supervisor, but began to look for the bicycle that his father had bought him at that time.
Later, Samantha (Cécile De France), a well-meaning barber, helps Cyril buy back the bike that Guy had sold. He rode his bike and continued to search for his father. Samantha moved compassion and helped her contact Guy. Father and son are finally reunited, it turns out that after Cyril's mother ran away from home, Guy felt powerless to support Cyril, and in order to start a new life in his own restaurant, he hoped that Samantha would help people to the end and take care of Cyril. However, Cyril feels the pain of being abandoned by Guy and desperately protects the bicycle, even meeting a group of underage drug dealers and walking on the edge of crime...
Unable to find his absent father, the stubborn bicycle boy became a man himself.
Alcist on a bicycle
Alceste on a Bicycle (2013)
At the height of his acting career, Serge quit show business and hid in a dilapidated house on the Island of Ré. Three years later, the popular star Gautier came to the island and offered him to star in Molière's "The World-Weary One". Serge flatly refused. But Serge suggested to Gautier to rehearse the first scene of the first act, and after the rehearsal began, the two actors challenged each other again and again...
As the plot progresses, the hidden human evils are stripped away layer by layer, layer by layer, and layer by layer until the final "naked, naked" opposite.
Red bikes
The Red Bike (2011)
The boy with balance disorder was doomed to not be able to ride, but that didn't stop him from assembling a cute red bike with his hands. But after all, the car is going to come and ride, and who is he making it for? Won the Best Short Film Award in the UK at the Iris World Gay Short Film Competition 2011.
The Circle of Life
The Great Loop (2013)
The first live-action film to shoot the world's most eye-catching film of the Tour de France Legendary cyclists Bernard Ino and Luo Hong Galabert special cameo Iron Horse Ogissan, for love for dreams, bravely entered the highest hall of cycling Feng Suo, who is over 40 years old, is a middle-aged Lu snake, his son looks down on him, and his wife accuses him. In order to escape the frustrating daily life, he spent all his time on his beloved bicycle, and when his wife found out that he was still a volunteer for this year's Tour de France, she finally couldn't stand the request for divorce and wanted to take her son with him.
It was not until he met Remy that Feng Suo's life changed silently, and he was also a fallen man in the end of the world, and under the influence of Remy, who was a former manager of the Scenery Movement and now a scrap of wood, Feng Suo decided to realize his long-buried childhood dream - to participate in the Tour de France. Halfway out of the house, he is determined to participate, not to get a name; his participation inspires many people to join, every time he passes another level, closer and closer to the finish line, the media is more and more crazy about him, but surrounded by professional players, can he really survive such a difficult schedule until the end?
Dreams do not distinguish between humble and great.
Queen of Speed
The Little Queen (2014)
Star cyclist Julie, who has won the World Cup twice. She loves to win and likes to be in the spotlight. Under the inducement of doctors and coaches, she began to take stimulants, and the results were detected by anti-doping tissues. Then because of the overdose of stimulants, Julie's physical condition also became a bad cake, can Julie survive?
It was depressing to watch, the soundtrack was amazing, and the coach felt like a horror movie when she pulled back the curtain while she was in the shower.
Me and my Morton bike
Me and My Moulton (2014)
A little girl wanted to get a bike from her parents and ended up with something completely different. The film shows the difference between the worlds of children and adults.
87th Academy Awards Best Animated Short Film (Nominated)
Mountain bike tour
Life Cycles (2010)
Derek Frankowski and Ryan Gibb spent three years walking in the majestic mountain wilderness, using the XC route cross-country ride in spring, summer, autumn and winter, BMX ride in the rice paddies, road trip and other extremely shocking visual tours, showing the strong attraction of riding in natural environments. Filmed using a 4K ultra-high-definition camera, the film records the whole process of mountain bikes from creation to disappearance, and captures the unique charm of mountain bikes with tension-filled lenses. Many of the world's top cyclists also participated in the filming of this film.
Turn sports into art! All kinds of high-speed photography, all kinds of big close-ups, all kinds of exquisite framing, all kinds of unexpected shooting angles, soundtracks, editing. Beautiful to the extreme!
The wheels are endless
Where The Trail Ends (2012)
The 2012 Red Bull Mountain Epic Blockbuster "Where The Trail Ends Red Bull" was filmed for 2 years, running in the Gobi of Xinjiang, in northern Utah, in Cafayat, Argentina, and mustang in the secret mustang of Nepal. This is a film about the world's top freelance mountain bikers who challenge themselves around the world to a variety of rugged terrains, their limits and nature.
Red Bull's extreme sports documentaries have always been adrenaline-pumping tools, and this film rides on a ridge, aerial overlook, first view and slow cut, coupled with rock and roll, an absolute visual feast. People use ropes to play cool films, what else can we ask for?