Trailer
Rivière
Sat
16
Sat 16 Nov 8:45 PM
Palace Cinema Como - Cinema 3
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Manon (Flavie Delangle), 17, has hitchhiked out of Switzerland to the French town of Belfort in search of her estranged dad. The hunt leads her to an ice rink and a chance encounter with a group of teens – the boys play ice hockey, the girls figure skating. The gender roles are thus defined, but Manon doesn’t play by these rules, and tries out and is admitted to the Lions, with the guys. Staying at her stepmother’s, Manon is hopeful her father will return and meantime plays hockey and hangs out with Karine (Sarah Bramms), a figure skater who has struggles with addiction. The two get closer and find the few happy moments are with one another. Manon’s dream though is to get to Canada and join a women’s hockey team, but her coach says: “you belong on the ice – the day you realise that, you can play anywhere”. With absent or missing parents, Rivière joins the cinema of generational, teen resilience – not rebellion, but survival – in this moving, queer coming-of-age story.