The Barbarian Invasions

The Barbarian Invasions

99 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 24, 2003

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who 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 entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.

The Barbarian Invasions

99 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 24, 2003

The Barbarian Invasions
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who 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 entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Canal+, Pyramide Productions, Cinémaginaire, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Alliance Atlantis Communications, Téléfilm Canada, Astral Films, Société Radio-Canada, SODEC
Original title Les Invasions barbares
Directors Jacques W. Benoit, Marie La Haye, Denys Arcand
Writers Denys Arcand

Cast

Rémy Girard

as Rémy

Stéphane Rousseau

as Sébastien

Marie-Josée Croze

as Nathalie

Dorothée Berryman

as Louise

Louise Portal

as Diane

Dominique Michel

as Dominique

Pierre Curzi

as Pierre

Yves Jacques

as Claude

Marina Hands

as Gaëlle

Sophie Lorain

as First Lover

Johanne-Marie Tremblay

as Sister Constance Lazure

Mitsou Gélinas

as Ghislaine

Isabelle Blais

as Sylvaine

Markita Boies

as Nurse Suzanne

Micheline Lanctôt

as Nurse Carole

Denis Bouchard

as Duhamel

Sylvie Drapeau

as Second Lover

Dominic Darceuil

as Maxime

Yves Desgagnés

as Olivier

Gilles Pelletier

as Priest Raymond Leclerc

Jean-René Ouellet

as Dr. Dubé

Macha Grenon

as Arielle

Gaston Lepage

as Security Guard

Daniel Brière

as Alain Lussier

Roy Dupuis

as Gilles Levac

Sébastien Ricard

as Jérôme

Bonnie Mak

as Nurse

Frédéric Gilles

as Cowboy

Denys Arcand

as Unionist (uncredited)

David Gow

as (uncredited)

Dawn Lambing

as (uncredited)

Valérie Jeanneret

as (uncredited)

Valérie Wiseman

as (uncredited)

François Domerc

as (uncredited)

Julie Beauchemin

as (uncredited)

Fanny Mallette

as (uncredited)

Lise Roy

as Mme. Joncas-Pelletier

Toni Cecchinato

as Alessandro