Virtual Movie Night: A Sunday in Hell

In celebration of Paris-Roubaix (aka “The Hell of the North”), our next bike film will be A Sunday in Hell.

Director and poet Jørgen Leth is obsessed with bicycle racing as a ritual expression of human victory and defeat, and it was from this obsession he made this classic 1977 documentary. The Sunday in question is April 11, 1976, when the grueling annual bicycle race Paris-Roubaix was held, and hell is the cobblestone roads of Northern France where the world’s best cyclists--including Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck, Freddy Maertens and Francesco Moser--battle for victory. Leth followed the race with an army of photographers, and the result is a mythic and spectacular documentary. 

“Arguably the best film ever made about professional cycling,”--The International Film Guide.

The movie has a running time of 1 hour, 51 minutes.

The talk and screening are free to Western Wheelers and their guests, but please sign up for the Zoom link.

See you at the movies!