Summary
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, 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 Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Details
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Runtime: 99 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: FR
Rating: ⭐ 7.1/10 (383 votes)
The Decline of the American Empire Collection

The Decline of the American Empire
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.

The Barbarian Invasions
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, 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 Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

Days of Darkness
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
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Cast

Rémy Girard
Rémy

Stéphane Rousseau
Sébastien

Marie-Josée Croze
Nathalie

Dorothée Berryman
Louise

Louise Portal
Diane Leonard

Dominique Michel
Dominique St. Arnaud

Pierre Curzi
Pierre Citrouillard

Yves Jacques
Claude

Marina Hands
Gaëlle

Sophie Lorain
First Lover

Johanne-Marie Tremblay
Sister Constance Lazure

Mitsou Gélinas
Ghislaine

Isabelle Blais
Sylvaine

Markita Boies
Nurse Suzanne

Micheline Lanctôt
Nurse Carole

Denis Bouchard
Duhamel

Sylvie Drapeau
Second Lover

Dominic Darceuil
Maxime

Gilles Pelletier
Priest Raymond Leclerc

Jean-René Ouellet
Dr. Dubé

Macha Grenon
Arielle

Gaston Lepage
Security Guard

Daniel Brière
Alain Lussier

Sébastien Huberdeau
Vincent

Rose-Maïté Erkoreka
Student

Roy Dupuis
Gilles Levac

Sébastien Ricard
Jérôme

Frédéric Gilles
Cowboy

Lise Roy
Mme. Joncas-Pelletier

Inés Orsini
Lúcia

David Gow

Dawn Lambing

Valérie Jeanneret

Valérie Wiseman

Julie Beauchemin

Fanny Mallette
(uncredited)

Françoise Hardy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Julie Christie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Chris Evert
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)




