Who Killed the Montreal Expos?

Twenty years later, we're still asking the wrong question: Who killed the Montreal Expos?

The Netflix documentary had a packed house and standing ovation at a Cinéma du Musée-hosted Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) world premiere on October 9 before it would be released globally October 21. It dangles the promise of a whodunit. The title demands answers, and the trailer teases villains, but director Jean-François Poisson knows something the rest of us are still learning: this was never about solving a crime.

"It's not an unsolved crime," Poisson told a packed house at the FNC world premiere. "It's unresolved grief."

That distinction matters, because for two decades, Montrealers who know the pain of losing the Expos have been stuck in their anger, pointing fingers at Jeffrey Loria, at David Samson, at Claude Brochu, at Lucien Bouchard, at Major League Baseball, and at one another to some extent. We've been so busy assigning blame that we never actually processed the loss.