This movie about a mountain bike racer who ages out of her sport and then becomes a bicycle courier is probably best appreciated by those who have a more personal relationship with bicycles or bicycling than the average person. If you don't know the difference between radial and cross spoked wheels or between Shimano and Campagnolo dérailleurs, then you may miss a goodly amount.
Charlotte Laurier plays the main role rather passively - outside of her passion for bicycling I didn't feel that I got to know her very well. There is a surprise revelation near the end that could have made for a more interesting story if that part of her personality had been probed. Her relationship with her geeky brother is not explored at all. There seemed to be some connection trying to be made between Laurier's speed cycling and Einstein's theory of relativity that states that time slows down when you travel at speeds that approach the speed of light. That is the only reason I can think of why those concepts were introduced.
There are some nicely filmed shots, especially the opening scenes of the race down the mountain. Unfortunately the most exciting scenes occur at the beginning. Some of the street scenes filmed in the city are nice, but we keep getting more and more scenes of Laurier riding down the streets of Montreal to where we think, "enough already." The original musical score is interesting and adds a lot, but there again after a while it becomes obtrusive and tiresome.
The story is a bit thin to be stretched into an hour and forty minutes. I found the sappy ending rather unsatisfying.
Charlotte Laurier plays the main role rather passively - outside of her passion for bicycling I didn't feel that I got to know her very well. There is a surprise revelation near the end that could have made for a more interesting story if that part of her personality had been probed. Her relationship with her geeky brother is not explored at all. There seemed to be some connection trying to be made between Laurier's speed cycling and Einstein's theory of relativity that states that time slows down when you travel at speeds that approach the speed of light. That is the only reason I can think of why those concepts were introduced.
There are some nicely filmed shots, especially the opening scenes of the race down the mountain. Unfortunately the most exciting scenes occur at the beginning. Some of the street scenes filmed in the city are nice, but we keep getting more and more scenes of Laurier riding down the streets of Montreal to where we think, "enough already." The original musical score is interesting and adds a lot, but there again after a while it becomes obtrusive and tiresome.
The story is a bit thin to be stretched into an hour and forty minutes. I found the sappy ending rather unsatisfying.