Racer and the Jailbird

Gino, a career criminal, and Bénédicte, a racing driver from a wealthy background, fall for each other soon after they meet. Their feelings are immediate and intense, but Gino's life in organized crime makes any ordinary future difficult: his associates keep him close, the police are watching, and the truth he withholds from Bénédicte threatens both of them. The couple must decide what they are willing to risk and what they are prepared to give up to stay together, while the pressures around them close in.

Michaël R. Roskam directed and co-wrote the film with Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré, following his earlier features Bullhead and The Drop and preceding Le Faux Soir. Matthias Schoenaerts plays Gino opposite Adèle Exarchopoulos as Bénédicte, with Éric De Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Nabil Missoumi and Fabien Magry among the supporting cast. The production, a Belgian, Dutch and French co-production made for about 8 million dollars, runs 130 minutes.

Racer and the Jailbird received mixed responses. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from roughly 6,100 votes, and on TMDB it has 5.9 from around 200 votes, while the film critics' rating stands lower, at 5.2 from 52 reviews. The gap suggests audiences were somewhat more receptive to the romance and crime story than reviewers were.