The Barbarian Invasions
Les invasions barbares
Comedy
Drama
A comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.
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.
2003-05-01
fr
Cast
Director
Denys Arcand
Rémy Girard as Rémy
Stéphane Rousseau as Sébastien
Marie-Josée Croze as Nathalie
Dorothée Berryman as Louise
Louise Portal as Diane Leonard
Dominique Michel as Dominique St. Arnaud
Pierre Curzi as Pierre Citrouillard
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
Sébastien Huberdeau as Vincent
Rose-Maïté Erkoreka as Student
Roy Dupuis as Gilles Levac
Sébastien Ricard as Jérôme
Frédéric Gilles as Cowboy
Lise Roy as Mme. Joncas-Pelletier
Inés Orsini as Lúcia
David Gow
Dawn Lambing
Valérie Jeanneret
Valérie Wiseman
Julie Beauchemin
Denys Arcand as Unionist (uncredited)
Fanny Mallette as (uncredited)
Françoise Hardy as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julie Christie as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chris Evert as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)