The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)
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Actor: Denis Bouchard, Dorothee Berryman, Isabelle Blais, Markita Boies, Toni CecchinatoPrimary Contributor: Dorothee Berryman
Primary Contributor: Marie-Josee Croze
Primary Contributor: R?my Girard
Primary Contributor: Stephanie Rousseau
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)
Movie Review: Rewarding on Many Levels
Summary: 4 Stars
This French Canadian movie was terrific! Although it made points on many levels, the first 20 minutes serve as an irrefutable indictment of Canadian socialized medicine. Concerning a dying man's wish to be with his family, this movie was poignant, believable, and touching. I especially loved the dinner scene where the characters are praising the great wisdom of the ages, and extol the virtues of America's Founding Fathers! The Barbarian Invasions is quite surprising and lovely. There are scenes of drug use, and sexual content in terms of joking and innuendo, and the subject of euthanasia; therefore, I do recommend parental preview.
Summary of The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)
Academy Award(R) winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS is a provocative look at the many ties that bind a group of friends and lovers. It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor (R?my Girard) to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life! Winner of the Best Actress (Marie-Jos?e Croze) and Best Screenplay awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival -- critics everywhere hailed this outstanding motion picture as one of the year's best!The intriguing Denys Arcand (director of Jesus of Montreal and Stardom) returns to the lusty, cantankerous intellectuals of his first film, The Decline of the American Empire. Remy (Remy Girard), a history professor, is dying of cancer, and his estranged and financially successful son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau) returns to care for the old man. With the power of money, Sebastien cuts through bureaucracy and the law to give his father some comfort--comfort that Remy accepts with reluctance, because in his eyes the unintellectual Sebastian has betrayed all of Remy's principles. Old friends arrive and soon the conversation turns to sex, religion, history, sex, academia, sex--The Barbarian Invasions isn't very focused, but the very breadth of its ideas makes it worth seeing; few movies even try to grapple with morality or the state of our culture, let alone with this kind of intelligence and grace. --Bret Fetzer
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