Reinventing Rosalee

Saw this film at the 13th annual Riverside Saginaw Film Festival and Its hard to believe I found a documentary as the, best-of-the-fest, out of 10 movies I saw at the Fest this year. Well in this case Rosalee's daughter, very lovingly, put together this wonderful story of her mother's touching and somewhat painful long life story. She gathers together a vast collection of visual material from old movies, news photos and war time films to piece together just what hardships this woman endured early in her life, while telling much of it with Rosalee herself on camera. Director Glass: a Psychologist, book author and body language expert, then documents her late life resurgence with plenty of video of her acting, the beauty contest in her 90s, and of course her dog sledding adventure. The film also shows the two on camera revisiting her homeland of Poland to acknowledge those family members lost to the war and her hardships in Siberia under Russian rule. Plenty of applause from the very attentive festival Audience.