The Rose Family

Audience Score
82
NR 2 hr 9 minDocumentary
In October 1970 members of the Front de Libération du Québec FLQ kidnapped Minister Pierre Laporte triggering an unprecedented crisis in Quebec Fifty years later Félix Rose tries to understand what could have led his father and uncle to commit such acts Thanks to the confidences of his uncle Jacques who agrees for the first time to speak on the subject and to the precious traces left by his father Paul he revives the rich heritage of a Quebec working family and gives back to the October crisis its social dimension The fruit of ten years of research Les Rose allows us to revive moments and characters that we only knew through a few clichés and gives a glimpse of the social blockage experienced by a rebellious youth and the upheavals that followed

Movie Details

Original Language:French
Executive Producers:Colette Loumède, Nathalie Cloutier
Production Companies:ONF NFB Babel Films