The Barbarian Invasions

Sep 24, 2003

1h 39m

★ 7.1

A comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Pyramide Productions

Cinémaginaire

The Barbarian Invasions Trailers

Cast

Rémy

Rémy Girard

Sébastien

Stéphane Rousseau

Nathalie

Marie-Josée Croze

Louise

Dorothée Berryman

Diane Leonard

Louise Portal

Dominique St. Arnaud

Dominique Michel

Pierre Citrouillard

Pierre Curzi

Claude

Yves Jacques

Gaëlle

Marina Hands

First Lover

Sophie Lorain

Sister Constance Lazure

Johanne-Marie Tremblay

Ghislaine

Mitsou Gélinas

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