During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 50 wins & 37 nominations total
- Sister Constance Lazure
- (as Johanne Marie Tremblay)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIt is the first sequel ever to win the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars.
- GoofsThe position of the cars outside the window changes when Sébastien first meets Nathalie in the restaurant.
- Quotes
Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.
- Alternate versionsThe movie exists in the wide-release 98-minute international version and also a "112-minute version" available on DVD.
- ConnectionsEdited from Cielo sulla palude (1949)
- SoundtracksL'Amitié
Music by Gérard Bourgeois
Lyrics by Jean-Max Rivière
Performed by Françoise Hardy
(c) 1965 by éditions Alpha
(p) 1965 Disques Vogue
By kind permission of BMG France
This Oscar winning Canadian movie is actually a sequel to the 1986 movie "Le déclin de l'empire américain", by the same director and also mostly the same cast. But is it also necessarily to see that movie first? Not really. It doesn't matter all that much for its story, I would imaging, though it probably will give the story and some of its characters some extra depth and emotions behind them.
Thing with this movie is that you can take it as both a political movie/social commentary or simply as a drama. It all depends on how much you're reading between the lines. I for one simply took this as a drama and perhaps you have to be Canadian yourself to fully appreciate and understand everything this movie is trying to do and tell.
The one and foremost thing I got out of this movie was that its story was telling you that you can live life all the way you want but in the end it will always be your family that will comfort- and bring you true joy and pleasure in life. And in that regard, this drama also truly works out very well.
It's also because the very realistic characters. None of them are without his or hers flaws really and just like its story, nothing is ever black or white. Nothing and no one is truly good or evil and people all make their mistakes in life, no mater how good the indentation are. Yes, you could say that this is one of those movies that is basically being like a random slice of life, with realistic people and emotions in it.
The movie of course also truly thrives on its great directing approach by Denys Arcand. He handles, the drama, the comedy and basically everything else in between very well and make it a very well balanced movie with all of its many ingredients and heavy subjects. Besides that, it's a very good looking movie, with a very distinctive style as well.
Simply a good and effective movie, you can hardly say anything bad about.
8/10
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- Also known as
- Invasion of the Barbarians
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Budget
- CA$6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,544,975
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $461,363
- May 11, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $34,883,010
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1