Ride Away
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the ordeals with tenderness, humor and emotion.
Our read · Ride Away (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Ride Away
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a tender funny bicycle journey processing grief and friendship across Europe.”
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The reading.
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