
User Score
12 votes
At the start line of the Lyon-Geneva bicycle race.
Director
Status
Released
Original Language
FR

Shot in 1896, this playful actuality captures workers from the Lumière factory in Lyon competing in a sack race. The scene shows the participants’ comic struggles and falls, with onlookers enjoying the lighthearted contest. Beyond its humor, the film offers a glimpse of everyday leisure and camaraderie among the Lumière workforce during cinema’s earliest years.

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.