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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936242782
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 21619
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Description:
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 (Rémy 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-Josée 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!
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Everything invades from the outside in
This 2003 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film is definitely not a light,frothy piece of fluff.If you are settling in to be amused,BARBARIAN INVASIONS would not be the film for you.This Quebecian film from Denys Arcand (The Decline Of The American Empire) is fraught with symbolism of life,death,decline,change and is one of those,every- scene,every- word,every- character- stands -for- something films that in order to extrapolate all of the meaning you must pay strict attention.INVASIONS ... Read More
Rating: - The barbaric invasion of time.
"I haven't found a meaning. I have to keep searching"--Rémy, just before his death.
Winner of France's 2004 César Award for Best Picture, The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) is the 2003 sequel to Denys Arcand's 1986 award-winning film The Decline of the American Empire and is followed by the 2007 Days of Darkness. In The Decline of the American Empire, eight intellectual friends (four men and four women) at the Université de Montréal discuss sex and politics (and more sex) ... Read More
Rating: - Incredible
A non-extravagant plot that offers so much in its crevices. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Rating: - An engaging story!
The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) I really enjoy French Canadian films and I find their story/ plots and humour quixotic. This one is no exception. The characters develop well throughout the film as does the simple storyline.
Rating: - Refreshing Honest and Mature Storyline
This movie is best seen as a sequel to Denys Arcand's first masterpiece; The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. In this movie, Arcand has undergone a trasnformation in his thinking, like most of the characters in his movie. From their self-indulgent and smug liberalism of their youth, the now older characters seem to awakened to many of the harsh realities of the world, as captured by the opening scene of the attack on the World Trade Center towers. This stands as a metaphor for their lives, which are ... Read More
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