In making the film, Rose said, he was trying to understand what drove his father and uncle to violence. Le Devoir, a leading Francophone newspaper, said the film could allow “a whole generation to rediscover a part of its history,” while others lauded its lyrical evocation of a working-class Quebec family. The debate over the film comes at a moment of cultural reckoning stirred up by the 50th anniversary of the October crisis. To make the movie, the filmmaker excavated old family film footage and interviewed his uncle, his aunts and his mother. “My generation grew up with an ideal of a harmonious, bilingual Canada, and the October crisis gets little consideration outside of Quebec,” he said.

Source: bd News24 December 07, 2020 03:56 UTC