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The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Directed by Denys Arcand
Overview
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.
Length 99 minutes
Actors
Rémy Girard | Stéphane Rousseau | Marie-Josée Croze | Dorothée Berryman | Louise Portal | Dominique Michel | Pierre Curzi | Yves Jacques | Marina Hands | Sophie Lorain | Johanne-Marie Tremblay | Mitsou Gélinas | Isabelle Blais | Markita Boies | Micheline Lanctôt | Denis Bouchard | Sylvie Drapeau | Dominic Darceuil | Yves Desgagnés | Gilles Pelletier | Jean-René Ouellet | Macha Grenon | Gaston Lepage | Daniel Brière | Sébastien Huberdeau | Rose-Maïté Erkoreka | Roy Dupuis | Sébastien Ricard | Bonnie Mak | Frédéric Gilles | Denys Arcand | David Gow | Dawn Lambing | Valérie Jeanneret | Valérie Wiseman | François Domerc | Julie Beauchemin | Fanny Mallette | Lise Roy | Toni Cecchinato | Inés Orsini | Françoise Hardy | Julie Christie | Chris Evert | Sofia de Medeiros