Rosie
Rosie (Keris Hope Hill) is a visibly Indigenous, English-speaking, sweet, and headstrong little girl and her mother has just died. A children’s services agent brings her to her only living relative, her Francophone aunt Frédérique (Mélanie Bray). “Fred” doesn’t have a solid foundation on which to raise a child. She is unprepared — she’s working at an adult entertainment shop and threatened with eviction — and is at first unwilling to take on caring for her adopted sister’s young daughter.
Reviews
Gail Maurice’s ‘Rosie’ is a ‘groundbreaking’ bilingual, Indigenous and queer film.
Post Sus
Maurice’s film does not wade in the cold waters of trauma like many of its counterparts, instead it chooses to swim in a warmer pool. ROSIE is not so much concerned with those that caused the emotional wounds the characters are nursing, but rather the healing that comes from one’s chosen family.
That Shelf
- By : Gail Maurice
- With : Mélanie Bray, Keris Hope Hill, Constant Bernard, Alex Trahan
- Year : 2022
- Duration : 90 min.
- Genre : Drame
- Language : French (English subtitles)
- Country : Canada
- Rating : All audiences
- Festivals : TIFF, Atlantic international film festival, Calgary International Film festival, Edmonton International film festival, Cinéfest Sudbury