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 the public first discovered in The Decline of the American Empire. The years have passed and the group of cynical intellectuals finds itself confronted with the problems of the "baby boomers": aging, illness, and the dreadful feeling that their lives are behind them. Rémy is now in his fifties, divorced, and trying to overcome the ordeal of a terrible illness in a Montreal hospital. His ex-wife, Louise, urgently calls their son, Sébastien, who is pursuing a brilliant financial career in London. The latter will attempt to make his father's final days gentler through bribes and other "compensations." But above all, he will bring back to the bedside of the sick man the friends whom life had pulled away. While criticizing the problems of Quebec society (the healthcare system, the overwhelming power of unions), Denys Arcand paints a portrait that is sometimes lacking in 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 may regret that irony has given way to tears and that the presence of Pierre Curzy, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel, or Yves Jacques is more timid, the reunion around Rémy Girard of young actors from the new guard, like Stéphane Rousseau, in a rather successful against-type role, or Marie-Josée Croze, still offers some beautiful moments of intensity. – Helen Faradji.

UPC: 065935205425

EAN: 0065935205425

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood