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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Denys Arcand
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Actors:
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Dorothée Berryman,
Sophie Lorain,
Louise Portal,
Dominique Michel,
Pierre Curzi,
Toni Cecchinato,
Mitsou,
Johanne-Marie Tremblay,
Denis Bouchard,
Rémy Girard,
Stéphane Rousseau,
Yves Jacques,
Marie-Josée Croze,
Marina Hands,
Micheline Lanctôt
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Duration:
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78 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)231
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Plot Summary:
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A man (St??phane Rousseau) flies from London to Montreal to affect his dissociated and terminally unfortunate governor (R??my Girard) in the nursing home.
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Barbarian
Generous-spirited and bracing, The Barbarian Invasions has the casual ease of an old friend met after some time apart, which, given this film's history, is just as it should be.
A prize-winner at Cannes, Barbarian is the sequel to writer-director Denys Arcand's "The Decline of the American Empire," a sharp-edged comic drama about a group of too-clever-for-their-own-good French Canadian intellectuals that remains one of Canada's biggest international successes. Barbarian is also a sequel that waited 17 years to be made. That time gap (so large it makes having seen the first film irrelevant to enjoying this one) exists because Arcand never intended to make a sequel.
His original goal -- a film about a dying man taking stock -- had "always ended up in bleak, ...
Barbarian
Reuniting the cast of his earlier Decline Of The American Empire, Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand constructs a bittersweet tale that acknowledges death and celebrates life
A self-styled hedonist and "sensual socialist", fiftysomething academic R??my (Girard) lies dying of cancer in an overcrowded Montreal hospital. At his bedside is his ex-wife Louise (Berryman). She's soon joined by his estranged son S??bastien (Rousseau) and fianc??e Ga??lle (Hands), as well as R??my's former lovers, mistresses and devoted friends from the Left. An international banker, S??bastien has the wherewithal to grease various palms, ensuring that his dad gets a private room and, via childhood friend Nathalie (Croze), a supply of heroin for pain relief. R??my, however, wonders whether he ha...
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