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The Barbarian Invasions
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The Barbarian Invasions

May 1, 2003
1h 39m
★ 7.0

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

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Cast

Rémy Girard

Rémy

Rémy Girard

Stéphane Rousseau

Sébastien

Stéphane Rousseau

Marie-Josée Croze

Nathalie

Marie-Josée Croze

Dorothée Berryman

Louise

Dorothée Berryman

Louise Portal

Diane Leonard

Louise Portal

Dominique Michel

Dominique St. Arnaud

Dominique Michel

Pierre Curzi

Pierre Citrouillard

Pierre Curzi

Yves Jacques

Claude

Yves Jacques

Marina Hands

Gaëlle

Marina Hands

Sophie Lorain

First Lover

Sophie Lorain

Johanne-Marie Tremblay

Sister Constance Lazure

Johanne-Marie Tremblay

Mitsou Gélinas

Ghislaine

Mitsou Gélinas