The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
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.
Rated
12+
Year
2003
Country
CA
Language
French
Release date
1 May 2003
TMDB
7.0 (422)
CineVerse
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Ratings
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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
B
Bonnie Mak
Nurse
Frédéric Gilles
Cowboy
Lise Roy
Mme. Joncas-Pelletier
T
Toni Cecchinato
Alessandro
Inés Orsini
Lúcia
David Gow
Dawn Lambing
Valérie Jeanneret
Valérie Wiseman
F
François Domerc
Julie Beauchemin
S
Sofia de Medeiros
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)
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