The Barbarian Invasions
(2003)
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The Barbarian Invasions
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| Rémy Girard | ... | ||
| Stéphane Rousseau | ... | ||
| Marie-Josée Croze | ... | ||
| Marina Hands | ... | ||
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Dorothée Berryman | ... |
Louise
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Johanne-Marie Tremblay | ... |
Sister Constance Lazure
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Pierre Curzi | ... |
Pierre Citrouillard
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| Yves Jacques | ... |
Claude
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| Louise Portal | ... |
Diane Leonard
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Dominique Michel | ... |
Dominique St. Arnaud
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Isabelle Blais | ... |
Sylvaine
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Toni Cecchinato | ... |
Alessandro
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| Sophie Lorain | ... |
First Lover
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| Mitsou | ... |
Ghislaine
(as Mitsou Gélinas)
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Markita Boies | ... |
Nurse Suzanne
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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. Written by matt-282
In Montreal, Rémy (Remy Girard) is an atheistic professor of history and lover of women, who has a terminal disease. His wife calls their son, Sébastien (Stéphane Rousseau) to come from London, where he works as a successful investor. Sébastien arrives in Montreal with his mate, and using his money and corruption, he improves the condition of his father in a public Canadian hospital. He gathers his father's friends around him, and they stay together until the death of Rémy. This low budget movie is a touching story about friendship and farewell to life, alternating drama with acid dialogs about religion, history, life, political system, literature and many other themes. The cast has a great performance, flowing the story in a very natural way. At least twice, the characters say that they are not in the Third World, and I certainly agree with that. But I was really surprised and impressed with the way subjects like corruption, Canadian public heath system, labor union, ministerial of exterior, bureaucracy, police, drug dealers etc. are presented in this film. If what this movie shows is reality, then they are in the right way to join the club... My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): ` As Invasões Bárbaras' (`The Barbarians Invasion')