The Barbarian Invasions
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who 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 entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Pyramide Productions, Cinémaginaire Inc., Téléfilm Canada, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Astral Films, Canal+, Société Radio-Canada, Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC), Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
Rémy Girard as Rémy, Stéphane Rousseau as Sébastien, Marie-Josée Croze as Nathalie, Dorothée Berryman as Louise, Louise Portal as Diane, Dominique Michel as Dominique, Pierre Curzi as Pierre, Yves Jacques as Claude, Marina Hands as Gaëlle, Sophie Lorain as First Lover, Johanne-Marie Tremblay as Sister Constance Lazure, Mitsou Gélinas as Ghislaine, Isabelle Blais as Sylvaine, Markita Boies as Nurse Suzanne, Micheline Lanctôt as Nurse Carole, Denis Bouchard as Duhamel, Sylvie Drapeau as Second Lover, Dominic Darceuil as Maxime, Yves Desgagnés as Olivier, Gilles Pelletier as Priest Raymond Leclerc, Jean-René Ouellet as Dr. Dubé, Lise Roy as Mme. Joncas-Pelletier, Macha Grenon as Arielle, Gaston Lepage as Security Guard, Daniel Brière as Alain Lussier, Sébastien Huberdeau as Vincent, Rose-Maïté Erkoreka as Student, Roy Dupuis as Gilles Levac, Sébastien Ricard as Jérôme, Bonnie Mak as Nurse, Frédéric Gilles as Cowboy, Denys Arcand as Unionist (uncredited), David Gow as (uncredited), Dawn Lambing as (uncredited), Valérie Jeanneret as (uncredited), Valérie Wiseman as (uncredited), François Domerc as (uncredited), Julie Beauchemin as (uncredited), Fanny Mallette as (uncredited)