From France, a small-scale, warm-hearted comedy of nuns entering a bike race in the Jura mountains.
In a small countryside village, the sisters of a dysfunctional convent find that their local hospice is falling to pieces and dangerously short of funds – and that only the cash prize for a 30km cycling race can provide them.
Against total inexperience, infirmity, and a fearsome rival convent, they throw themselves into training for it with every intention to win – trusting that, with God and each other, anything is possible. The last film of the late writer-director Laurent Tirard (Petit Nicolas, The Speech), he avoids biting satire or surreal farce for a grounded, gentle, and well-acted story of people coming together against the odds (and many, many falls), making for a delightful little film that doesn’t outstay it’s welcome.
