The Barbarian Invasions
2003/09/24 • $8,000,000 • Released • French, English
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.
Director : Denys Arcand
Casts
Rémy Girard
Rémy
Stéphane Rousseau
Sébastien
Marie-Josée Croze
Nathalie
Dorothée Berryman
Louise
Louise Portal
Diane Leonard
Dominique Michel
Dominique St. Arnaud
Pierre Curzi
Pierre Citrouillard
Yves Jacques
Claude
Marina Hands
Gaëlle
Sophie Lorain
First Lover
Johanne-Marie Tremblay
Sister Constance Lazure
Mitsou Gélinas
Ghislaine
Isabelle Blais
Sylvaine
Markita Boies
Nurse Suzanne
Micheline Lanctôt
Nurse Carole
Denis Bouchard
Duhamel
Sylvie Drapeau
Second Lover
Dominic Darceuil
Maxime
Yves Desgagnés
Olivier
Gilles Pelletier
Priest Raymond Leclerc
Jean-René Ouellet
Dr. Dubé
Macha Grenon
Arielle
Gaston Lepage
Security Guard
Daniel Brière
Alain Lussier
Sébastien Huberdeau
Vincent
Rose-Maïté Erkoreka
Student
Roy Dupuis
Gilles Levac
Sébastien Ricard
Jérôme
Frédéric Gilles
Cowboy
Lise Roy
Mme. Joncas-Pelletier
Inés Orsini
Lúcia
David Gow
Dawn Lambing
Valérie Jeanneret
Valérie Wiseman
Julie Beauchemin
Denys Arcand
Unionist (uncredited)
Fanny Mallette
(uncredited)
Françoise Hardy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julie Christie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chris Evert
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Recommended
Lantana
October 4, 2001
Aliyah
September 19, 2012
Sing Along with Barbie
November 10, 2009
My First Barbie: Happy DreamDay
February 1, 2023
Love & Human Remains
July 22, 1994
María (and Everybody Else)
October 7, 2016
The Last Tunnel
March 12, 2004
Country Cabaret
May 11, 2022
The Adventures of Huck Finn
April 2, 1993
The Decline of the American Empire
June 19, 1986
The Big Red One
May 28, 1980
Ronal the Barbarian
September 27, 2011
Seven Chances
March 15, 1925
Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
January 31, 1992
Starbuck
July 27, 2011
Human
September 12, 2015
And Now for Something Completely Different
September 28, 1971
Still Life
November 28, 2013
Four Good Days
April 30, 2021