A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.
It has been years since Sébastien (Stéphane Rousseau), a wealthy London investment banker, has been home to visit his parents in Canada. He has been avoiding a run-in with his father, Rémy (Rémy Girard), a spirited and lustful Professor of History who long ago divorced Sébastien's loving mother Louise (Dorothée Berryman.) Meanwhile, his sister has left land entirely, sailing across the high seas in a yacht. But when a crisis calls Sébastien home to Quebec, father and son must confront one another at last. Right off the bat, their reunion is a bust. Equally stubborn, the two men cannot see eye to eye. To Sébastien, Rémy is unreasonable and cold. To Rémy, Sébastien is a symbol of the coming "barbarian invasions," of all the negative changes in the world.
But desperate to bring his father some kind of happiness, Sébastien pours his energy into an all-consuming mission: to reunite the "merry band" that marked Rémy's complicated past - friends, colleagues and former mistresses included. In the process, Sébastien discovers more about his father than he ever imagined, more about what he wants and hope for in his own life, and more about the pleasures of wine, women, conversation and the love and compassion of good friends.
Special Agent Matti
The barbarian invasions (Les invasions barbares: le déclin continue) is The big chill for old intellectuals. A bunch of old intellectuals get together to celebrate the death of one of their number. Being old intellectuals, there are also children to consider (and with whom to have issues). If you like red wine, go to the cinema (not the movies), read books, discuss books you've read and appreciate the finer things in life, this motion picture is for you. Stimulating, dramatic and funny, it is well worth watching.
MA 15+ (Drug use)
99 minutes (1:39 hours)
Film: 10 June 2004
DVD rental: 25 August 2004
VHS rental: 25 August 2004
