The Rose Family (2020)

Original title

Les Rose

Directed by

Félix Rose

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

14A

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The filmmaker explores his relationship with his father who was a convicted terrorist. He tries to understand the events and motivations from the past. The film is an attempt to come to terms with a difficult family history.

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What happens

The Rose Family (French: Les Rose) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Félix Rose and released in 2020. The film centres on the filmmaker's status as the son of Paul Rose, a onetime leader of the Front de libération du Québec who was convicted of kidnapping and murder in the death of Pierre Laporte, and his efforts to come to terms with his complicated familial legacy. The film was criticized by Lise Ravary of the Montreal Gazette for purportedly romanticizing the FLQ; although Félix Rose denied this, and stated that "the idea was not to minimize what they did, on the contrary, it was to put it in context, to allow us to understand what led to it." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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