Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Rémy Girard | ... | Rémy | |
Stéphane Rousseau | ... | Sébastien | |
Marie-Josée Croze | ... | Nathalie | |
Marina Hands | ... | Gaëlle | |
Dorothée Berryman | ... | Louise | |
Johanne-Marie Tremblay | ... | Sister Constance Lazure (as Johanne Marie Tremblay) | |
Pierre Curzi | ... | Pierre Citrouillard | |
Yves Jacques | ... | Claude | |
Louise Portal | ... | Diane Leonard | |
Dominique Michel | ... | Dominique St. Arnaud | |
Isabelle Blais | ... | Sylvaine | |
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Toni Cecchinato | ... | Alessandro |
Sophie Lorain | ... | First Lover | |
Mitsou | ... | Ghislaine (as Mitsou Gélinas) | |
Markita Boies | ... | Nurse Suzanne |
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
I rented this movie last weekend. Not having heard anything about it, I was prepared for a middling effort and some mild entertainment.
I have to say that I was happily surprised by the quality of this film. It is a very moving piece. It touched upon so many facets of every day life - love, death, sex, fidelity, family, ambition, religion, loyalty, forgiveness, and redemption. It was handled in an understated way that allows the audience to think about the themes introduced without hitting them over the head with a message. The cast was really terrific, too. I would definitely recommend this for an indie-foreign film aficionado.