Besides being a mad movie buff, I am also in love with sport. And of course films about it. This movie made for the TV is a great homage to Laurent Fignon, one famous french bicycle champ, back in the eighties. Who failed in the 1989 Tour de France for ONLY eight seconds, behind Greg Le Mond, the US winner this year. EIGHT f.. seconds after three weeks of hell on the french roads...
Samuel Le Bihan gives here a tremendous performance as the former champ in his last days. Keep in mind Fignon died of cancer four years ago.
Poignant story for a great athlete who gave everything of his life for his sport and also for the audiences. The story of the friendship between Fignon and a physician in charge to heal him is unforgettable. Gripping at the most.
And above all, a great great music score; At the same scale as the ones François de Roubaix gave us three or four décades ago. Scores that made you weep. After watching this film, you need to take your bicycle and hit the road, far away, ride on countryside, and forever.
This story reminds me another film, made in the early sixties, starring Steve Mc Queen and Jackie Gleason: SOLDIER IN THE RAIN.
Or the audiences in the tears.
Samuel Le Bihan gives here a tremendous performance as the former champ in his last days. Keep in mind Fignon died of cancer four years ago.
Poignant story for a great athlete who gave everything of his life for his sport and also for the audiences. The story of the friendship between Fignon and a physician in charge to heal him is unforgettable. Gripping at the most.
And above all, a great great music score; At the same scale as the ones François de Roubaix gave us three or four décades ago. Scores that made you weep. After watching this film, you need to take your bicycle and hit the road, far away, ride on countryside, and forever.
This story reminds me another film, made in the early sixties, starring Steve Mc Queen and Jackie Gleason: SOLDIER IN THE RAIN.
Or the audiences in the tears.
