Racer and the Jailbird
Synopsis
When Gino meets Bénédicte, it’s love at first sight, passionate, unconditional, fiery. She is working in the family business, and she also drives cars on circuits. Gino is that kind of normal guy, cool, handsome… but he hides a secret. That kind of secret that can endanger your life and the lives of those around you. Gino and Bénédicte will have to fight against fate, reason, and their own weaknesses to save their love.
Screenplay
Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, Michaël R. Roskam
Director of Photography
Nicolas Karakatsanis
Film Editing
Alain Dessauvage
Producers
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Bart Van Langendonck
Production Companies
Stone Angels, Savage Film
Cast
Matthias Schoenaerts, Adéle Exarchopoulos, Eric de Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Nabil Missoumi, Thomas Coumans, Nathalie Van Tongelen, Kerem Can, Sam Louwyck, Fabien Magry, Gianni La Rocca, Anaëllen Potdevin, Stefaan Degand
Duration
130’
Michaël R. Roskam was born in 1972 in Sint-Truiden (Belgium). He attended the St. Lucas Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he studied Painting and contemporary art. In 2005, he graduated from the Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam with a master’s degree in script writing and development. He was also a journalist for Flemish newspaper De Morgen. Racer and the Jailbird is his third feature film after the internationally acclaimed film Bullhead in 2011 (Oscar and César nominee for Best Foreign Language Film) and The Drop, a dark crime film with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late James Gandolfini playing the lead roles.
