The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
(Les invasions barbares)
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col/scope 99m
Director: Denys Arcand
Cast: Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands
Synopsis:
The estranged wife of a university professor stricken with cancer pleads with her son to fly over from London to Quebec to ease his father's discomfort and make his peace.
Review:
The characters of Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain come back together to surround dying philanderer Rémy's bedside with cultured quips and deliciously phrased sexual references. The adult humour can come across as faintly embarrassing this time (shouldn't these people have grown up by now - the youngsters seem to have?) but it is poignant indeed to see them all nearly twenty years older and the effects of their errings on their offspring are sketched in without resorting to commonplaces (the junkie kicks her habit, the son doesn't quite succumb to the libidinous gene one suspects he has inherited from his father). A fine adult entertainment with a glorious music track.
(Les invasions barbares)
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col/scope 99m
Director: Denys Arcand
Cast: Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands
Synopsis:
The estranged wife of a university professor stricken with cancer pleads with her son to fly over from London to Quebec to ease his father's discomfort and make his peace.
Review:
The characters of Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain come back together to surround dying philanderer Rémy's bedside with cultured quips and deliciously phrased sexual references. The adult humour can come across as faintly embarrassing this time (shouldn't these people have grown up by now - the youngsters seem to have?) but it is poignant indeed to see them all nearly twenty years older and the effects of their errings on their offspring are sketched in without resorting to commonplaces (the junkie kicks her habit, the son doesn't quite succumb to the libidinous gene one suspects he has inherited from his father). A fine adult entertainment with a glorious music track.
(Les invasions barbares)
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col/scope 99m
Director: Denys Arcand
Cast: Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands
Synopsis:
The estranged wife of a university professor stricken with cancer pleads with her son to fly over from London to Quebec to ease his father's discomfort and make his peace.
Review:
The characters of Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain come back together to surround dying philanderer Rémy's bedside with cultured quips and deliciously phrased sexual references. The adult humour can come across as faintly embarrassing this time (shouldn't these people have grown up by now - the youngsters seem to have?) but it is poignant indeed to see them all nearly twenty years older and the effects of their errings on their offspring are sketched in without resorting to commonplaces (the junkie kicks her habit, the son doesn't quite succumb to the libidinous gene one suspects he has inherited from his father). A fine adult entertainment with a glorious music track.