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Welcome to the Roses

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Welcome to the Roses
Film poster
Directed byFrancis Palluau
Written byFrancis Palluau
Produced byCharles Gassot
StarringCarole Bouquet
Jean Dujardin
Lorànt Deutsch
André Wilms
Michel Duchaussoy
CinematographyRomain Winding
Edited byVéronique Parnet
Music bySerge Perathoner
Distributed byTFM Distribution
Release date
  • 2 April 2003 (2003-04-02)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$5.4 million[1]
Box office$2.1 million[2]

Welcome to the Roses (original title: Bienvenue chez les Rozes) is a 2003 French comedy film, written and directed by Francis Palluau. It stars Jean Dujardin, Carole Bouquet and Lorànt Deutsch.

Plot

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Two armed convicts on the run, one wounded, take hostage the middle-class Roze family in a pleasant French suburb. TV news reports that the two guards escorting them have been shot dead. Father, mother and 18-year-old daughter show a high degree of sympathy for and cooperation with their captors. Wounds are dressed, clothes washed, a good dinner served, fine wines drunk and separately the two women offer themselves. But slowly the picture is reversed. Rather than hardened criminals, the intruders are petty malefactors jailed through mistakes. Their escape was accidental when one guard killed the other and then committed suicide, so they are not murderers. As for the family, after the charming and sexy Madame Roze kills the maid by sinking a sickle into her back, the others are gradually revealed to be little better than their unwanted guests. In the end the two prisoners slip quietly away while the Roze family are handcuffed and led in front of all their neighbours to a police van.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Bienvenue chez les Rozes (2003)". Jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Welcome to the Roses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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