The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.
Starring Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze
Directed by Denys Arcand
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estranged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.
Runtime: 99 min.
Rating: 7.2
DVD
Languages: English,French
Countries: Canada,France
Genres: Comedy,Crime,Drama
Keywords: parent child relationship,socialism,yuppie,professor,dying and death,friends,cancer,money,university,illness,dying,family conflict
Cast
Rémy
Sébastien
Nathalie
Louise
Diane
Dominique
Pierre
Claude
Gaëlle
First Lover
Sister Constance Lazure
Ghislaine
Sylvaine
Nurse Suzanne
Nurse Carole
Duhamel
Second Lover
Maxime
Olivier
Priest Raymond Leclerc
Dr. Dubé
Arielle
Security Guard
Alain Lussier
Vincent
Student
Gilles Levac
Jérôme
Nurse
Cowboy
Unionist (uncredited)
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Mme. Joncas-Pelletier