The Rose Family

The Rose Family
FrenchLes Rose
Directed byFélix Rose
Produced byMarco Frascarelli
Colette Loumède
CinematographyEric Piccoli
Edited byMichel Giroux
Production
companies
Release date
  • August 14, 2020 (2020-08-14)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Rose Family (French: Les Rose) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Félix Rose and released in 2020.[1] 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.[2]

The film was criticized by Lise Ravary of the Montreal Gazette for purportedly romanticizing the FLQ;[3] 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."[4]

  1. ^ Marc-André Lussier [fr], "Les Rose : à la recherche des pièces manquantes". La Presse, August 21, 2020.
  2. ^ Éric Moreault, "Les Rose: Un courageux documentaire personnel". Le Soleil, August 20, 2020.
  3. ^ Lise Ravary, "Les Rose romanticizes FLQ terrorism". Montreal Gazette, August 24, 2020.
  4. ^ Marian Scott, "Truth and myth: Tracing the roots of the October Crisis". Montreal Gazette, October 4, 2020.