The Barbarian Invasions

Les invasions barbares

2003·99'

Denys Arcand

DramaComedy

★ 7.1

Letterboxd TMDB #11042

A comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, 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 Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

Cast

Rémy Girard Rémy

Stéphane Rousseau Sébastien

Marie-Josée Croze Nathalie

Dorothée Berryman Louise

Louise Portal Diane Leonard

Dominique Michel Dominique St. Arnaud

Pierre Curzi Pierre Citrouillard

Yves Jacques Claude

Marina Hands Gaëlle

Sophie Lorain First Lover

Johanne-Marie Tremblay Sister Constance Lazure

Mitsou Gélinas Ghislaine