''The Little Queen'' (french: La Petite Reine) is a Canadian sports drama film, directed by
Alexis Durand-Brault
Alexis Durand-Brault is a Canadian cinematographer and film director. He is most noted for his 2017 film '' It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier)'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Di ...
and released in 2014.T'cha Dunlevy, "Behind the shame; La petite reine is inspired by Quebec cyclist Genevieve Jeanson, who admitted taking performance-enhancing substances for years". ''
Montreal Gazette
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'', June 13, 2014. Based on the true story of cyclist
Geneviève Jeanson
Geneviève Jeanson (born August 29, 1981) is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne ...
, whose career as a professional cyclist was derailed by a doping scandal, the film stars
Laurence Leboeuf
Laurence Charlotte Leboeuf (born December 13, 1985) is a Canadian actress.
Biography
Leboeuf was born on December 13, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec. She went to École Notre-Dame-de-Grâce for elementary and later on, she went to Villa Maria for hig ...
as Julie Arseneau, a cyclist who is caught doping just a few races short of the championship race, and
Patrice Robitaille
Patrice Robitaille (born 1974) is a Canadian actor and screenwriter. He is most noted as cowriter with Jean-Philippe Pearson and Ricardo Trogi of the film '' Québec-Montréal'' (2002), for which they won the Jutra Award for Best Screenplay at ...
as her coach.
The film premiered theatrically in June 2014.
The film received four
Prix Jutra
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.17th Jutra Awards, for Best Actor (Robitaille),
Best Actress
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(Leboeuf), Best Sound (Mario Auclair, Stéphane Bergeron, Marcel Pothier and Christian Rivest) and Best Editing (Louis-Philippe Rathé)."Prix Jutra: «Mommy» de Xavier Dolan à l'honneur avec dix nominations". Canadian Press, January 26, 2015.