| The Barbarian Invasions | |
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| 2 Nominations / 1 Win | |
| Year | 2003 |
| Director | Denys Arcand |
| Writer | Denys Arcand |
| Starring | Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau |
| 76th Academy Awards | |
The Barbarian Invasions (French: Les Invasions barbares) is a 2003 French-Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand. It is the sequel to Arcand's earlier film The Decline of the American Empire and is followed by Days of Darkness. The film was produced by companies from both Canada and France, including Telefilm Canada, Société Radio-Canada and Canal+. It was released in 2003 and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004.
Wins
- Best Foreign Language Film — Denys Arcand representing Canada
Nominations
- Best Foreign Language Film — Denys Arcand representing Canada
- Best Original Screenplay — Denys Arcand
Plot[]
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.
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