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An engaging and humane exploration of personal, political and sexual mores, Arcand's Oscar-winning comedy drama features many of the same characters from his earlier 'Decline of the American Empire'. Here, Remy being diagnosed with cancer prompts reconciliations and reunions, whilst his son calls upon his father's old friends and mistresses to make his life comfortable.

 

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Director Denys Arcand
Starring Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau, Marie-Josee Croze

 

Genre World Cinema

 

Country Canada Language FRENCH   Year 2003

 

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Deleted scenes; Denys Arcand interview; Theatrical trailer; 'The Decline of the American Empire' trailer; Cast & crew filmographies.

 

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Certificate 18   Length 99 mins   Label ART-E
Cat No ART273DVD   Format DVD   Colour
Region2   Aspect Enhanced for widescreen TV
Subtitles English.

 

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Review by Howard Schumann on 28th April 2004

In a crowded hospital in Montreal and on Lake Memphremagog in Southern Quebec, a group of seven friends and lovers gather to say farewell to history professor and unabashed womanizer, Rémy (Rémy Girard) who is slowly dying of cancer. Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions reprises the characters first introduced in Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire seventeen years ago, and they come across as real people honestly searching for meaning and reconciliation. Though the film is about death and dying, it is filled with intelligence, humor, high energy, and commitment to life.

The film centers on Rémy's estranged relationship with his son Sebastian (stand-up comic Stéphane Rousseau) a millionaire London businessman. When Sebastian comes to Montreal with his fiancée (Marina Hands), years of resentment against his father boil to the surface. In spite of this resentment, however, he starts throwing money around to make his father's final days more comfortable, in a way subtly letting his father know that money can buy anything. Sebastian "persuades" hospital administrators to provide a private room for him and contacts Remy's old friends from the university and brings them to the hospital. When Rémy is released, all meet at a cottage by a lake for a group discussion and a final completion.

The Barbarian Invasions allows us to connect with our mortality and our relationships with those we care about. It is often hard to reconcile the robustly alive Rémy with our pictures of a man dying of cancer, but Girard is powerfully effective in the role and I went from distaste of his amorality to full acceptance of who he is. Though the conclusion is emotional, it is not overly sentimental, allowing us to access a deep place of silence within.

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