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 (376 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)