Author: Remy Girard

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 13-07-2004

Details: Amazon.ca Crowned with a shower of awards (Genie, Jutra, Oscars, Cannes, Toronto…) The Barbarian Invasions brings back to life, seventeen years later, the characters that the public had discovered in The Decline of the American Empire. Years pass and the band of cynical intellectuals find themselves confronted with the problems of the "baby boomers": aging, illness and the awful feeling that life is behind them. Rémy is now in his fifties, he is divorced and is trying to overcome the ordeal of a terrible illness in a Montreal hospital. His ex-wife, Louise, makes an emergency call to their son, Sébastien, who is leading a brilliant financial career in London. The latter will try to make his father's last days sweeter with great bribes and other "compensations". But above all, he will bring back to the patient his friends whom life had taken away. While stigmatizing the problems of Quebec society (the health system, the omnipotence of the unions), Denys Arcand paints a portrait, sometimes without subtlety, but very moving, of parent-child relationships. By confronting his characters with the greatest taboo of Western civilization – death – he also symbolizes the passing of the torch between these generations with such different values. Even if some will regret that the irony has given way to tears and that the presence of Pierre Curzy, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel or Yves Jacques are more timid, the meeting around Rémy Girard of young actors from the new guard, like Stéphane Rousseau, in a rather successful counter-employment, or Marie-Josée Croze, still offers beautiful moments of intensity. – Helen Faradji.

UPC: 065935205425

EAN: 0065935205425

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood