Fresh
This intricate, powerful, unsettling film brings us into a world of profound moral complexities where facile judgments must be suspended because even the best people can become complicit in evil.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Overview
Loyalty, history and regret take center stage for university professor Pavel Josek, lauded for standing up to the communist regime when it counted most. But as a TV documentary starts to focus in on the facts of his past, new truths are uncovered which may threaten his reputation.
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87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The point of this thoughtful, moving film is that the motives and actions that define human ethics are never simple and that the Communist regime was especially adept at exploiting this complexity for its own ends.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Fresh
History is written by the winners, but even after the ink dries, everyone-including the losers-still has to live with it.
David Fear, Time Out New York
Fresh
A film that recognizes life as a tumultuous mess of both noble and base intensions and actions, as well as one that understands the thorny tragedies such chaos often leaves in its wake.
Nick Schager, Village Voice
Fresh
The problem with Kawasaki's Rose is that the theme is far more compelling than the movie.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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