Welcome to the Roses

Welcome to the Roses
Welcome to the Roses
	Film poster
Directed by	Francis Palluau
Written by	Francis Palluau
Produced by	Charles Gassot
Starring	Carole Bouquet; Jean Dujardin; Lorànt Deutsch; André Wilms; Michel Duchaussoy
Cinematography	Romain Winding
Edited by	Véronique Parnet
Music by	Serge Perathoner
Distributed by	TFM Distribution
Release date	2 April 2003;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$5.4 million
Box office	$2.1 million

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

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.