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	Les Invasions barbares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) is a Quebec comedy/drama film directed by Denys Arcand and released in 2003.
		It is the sequel to Arcand's earlier work, Le Déclin de l'empire américain, which won 9 Genies and the Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice Award.
		Continuing seventeen years after Arcand's 1986 film Le Déclin de l'empire américain, the movie is once again much more conversation- and script-driven than by the typical elements of plot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Les_Invasions_barbares (327 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Film : Les Invasions Barbares
		Les Invasions barbares, Denys Arcand's sequel to his 1986 Oscar-nominated Le Déclin de l'empire américain is easily the most anticipated Québécois film of the year.
		Containing the same raucous humour of Le Déclin, Les Invasions contains an unforeseen level of reflection and social critique, and constructs a penetrating group portrait of the generation that transformed Quebec in the '60s and '70s.
		And here we witness one of the 'barbarian invasions': lacking all the cultural and political aspirations of their parents, the younger generation is represented by puritanical-capitalist Sébastien, and Nathalie (Marie-Josée Croze), a heroin-addicted daughter of one of the boomers.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/050803/film3.html (373 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Philistines all
		Arcand's latest film, The Barbarian Invasions, continues the stories of the Decline characters 17 years later, and it, too, has prompted a multi-gallon local ink spill about what it might be saying about the future of Quebec in the age of globalisation.
		The Barbarian Invasions was a major box-office hit in Quebec and is shaping up to be Arcand's most successful film internationally; it might finally earn him the Academy award for best foreign language film that has evaded him twice before (for Decline in 1987 and Jesus of Montreal in 1999).
		Invasions was a surprise success at Cannes last year: Arcand won the best screenplay award, and Croze, virtually unknown outside Quebec, beat Nicole Kidman, among others, to take the prize for best actress ("We were all taken aback," says Arcand).
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1147742,00.html (1312 words)

	THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
		The Barbarian Invasions, Canadian writer-director Denys Arcand's unofficial sequel to 1986's The Decline of the American Empire, is, simply put, just another horrifyingly somber film about someone dying.
		The only thing that separates Invasions from vile tripe like Stepmom and Sweet November is the language its mawkish characters spew.
		I've never seen Empire, so maybe there's some fantastic cosmic revelation I missed with Invasions (or maybe the subtle crux of the entire film was revealed during the few minutes of it that I heard but never saw, thanks to a blown projector bulb — could it be like the Nixon tapes?).
	www.sick-boy.com /barbarian.htm (557 words)

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		If we were to extend the metaphor across the 17 years since its prequel, The Barbarian Invasions is all about the inevitable result of decline.
		It is about a group of people at the deathbed of an elegant professor witnessing the unfolding of a generational exchange.
		Synopsis: Probably the most rewarding drama of the year, The Barbarian Invasions is as dialogically profound as any classic Rohmer, and as visually overwhelming as a Mike Leigh.
	www.thematthewshouseproject.com /film/barbarian.htm (1080 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)
		'The Barbarian Invasions' opens with a long tracking 'ER'-style shot of a chaotic hospital, eventually winding its way, via mistaken identity, to the bedside of middle-aged history professor Rémy (Girard), one of the key members of the first film.
		And talk they do, about sex and family, terrorism and genocide, the disappearance of civilisation and the invasion of the barbarian that is death.
		Warm, humorous and unexpectedly poignant, 'The Barbarian Invasions' is a humanist celebration of friendship and life in the face of death.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0219/thebarbarianinvasions.html (411 words)

	EI > Reviews > Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) (2003)
		“The Barbarian Invasions” takes the position that both men have something to teach the other and in the waning moments of Rémy’s life, maybe he will be able to pass his zest for living onto his staid son and at the same time make peace with his boy.
		At the beginning of “Les Invasions barbares” or “The Barbarian Invasions” there is one long continuously flowing shot in which a purposely-shaky camera follows a nun on her rounds down a crowded hallway in a hospital.
		She meanders skillfully to and fro by the sick and cramped, people are literally lying on beds in the corridor with IVs attached and dangling, some stand strained in gowns that reveal their rears, a few accept communion.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/thebarbarianinvasions.php (1000 words)

	TAKE ONE: Epidemic amnesia: AIDS is curiously forgotten in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares
		But when you ponder it, the exclusion of HIV/AIDS in Les Invasions barbares is both strikingly odd and very significant.
		Les Invasions barbares, of course, is a film about mortality in general, with specific references to a collapsing health-care system.
		Arcand deserves praise for Les Invasions barbares, easily one of the best films of the past year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_46_13/ai_n6118273 (1170 words)

	TAKE ONE: A director in his prime: Denys Arcand's: Les Invasions barbares
		It happened while the veteran Quebec writer/director was early in production of Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions), the long-gestating sequel to Le Declin de l'empire americain (1986), his satire of 1980s attitudes and sexual mores.
		Les invasions, recently named as the gala opener to this year's Toronto International Film Festival, tracks the reaction of friends and family to the impending death of Le Declin's "sensual socialist," Remy (Remy Girard), the philandering Montreal academic who is as fond of sex as he is of intellectual discourse.
		His views about the terrorist attacks of 9/11 are so strong, he inserts into Les Invasions terrifying footage of one of the hijacked jets crashing into the World Trade Center.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_50_14/ai_n14704671 (1320 words)

	The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While The Barbarian Invasions centers on death and dying, Arcand never slips into sentimentality, in perfect keeping with both the sophistication of his characters and good movie-making.
		The joy that these people take in life is as important as the inevitability of death; surviving the Invasion is the triumph of life while it is lived.
		There's plenty of humor in this film and there is sadness, too, but as a statement of faith on overcoming the Invaders it is transcendently uplifting.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies7/BarbarianInvasions.htm (599 words)

	Invasion of the Barbarians movie info - dvds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Barbarian Invasions isn't exactly light entertainment - the film requires us to contemplate heavy subjects like life and death - but in the end, the movie packs an emotional wallop that The Decline of the American Empire in no way prepared us for.
		The Barbarian Invasions is a rare and unconventional film: it is complicated, but the complications come not from the plot, but from the characters.
		At the end of the film, we are not left wondering what happened, because all of the events in the film are pretty clear, but rather why what happened did, and what the motivations were.
	www.mooviees.com /8291-invasion-of-the-barbarians/movie (927 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| 'America will rule for a century'
		The Barbarian Invasions is a sequel of sorts to that film, though it stands perfectly well alone.
		Since then, however, the world has changed again; and at the heart of The Barbarian Invasions is a discussion about the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11 2001, and the wars that have followed it.
		For all these heavyweight themes, it would be wrong to give the impression that The Barbarian Invasions is some theoretical tract on the state of the world.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/02/13/bfarcand13.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/02/13/ixartleft.html (1005 words)

	Les Invasions Barbares
		The Barbarian Invasions was the Centrepiece Gala performance at the 47
		Where Decline has all the nuances of a foghorn, Invasions is a veritable symphony.
		The Barbarian Invasions is distributed in the UK by Artificial Eye in association with BBC FOUR.
	www.roydupuis-online.com /history/film/invasions.htm (833 words)

	FilmStew.com • Toronto Fest Features Canadian Invasion
		TIFF 28 opened with one such film, Quebecois filmmaker Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions), one of the few movies to escape this year's critically reviled Cannes festival with glowing notices, and went on to garner prizes for Arcand's screenplay and a Best Actress award for co-star Marie-Josee Croze.
		Invasions is a moving family drama, but as the irrepressible Remy continues to teach, after a fashion, the history of a world that has seen so much genocide to his nurses and to Nathalie (Croze), the young woman who surreptitiously brings him heroin, it is also an often biting political discourse.
		Les Invasions barbares reveals similar concerns in the historian Remy's take on American imperialism and his realization that his own career might have been stymied by working in Canada rather than the behemoth United States.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/DailyNews/Details.asp?ContentID=6691&Pg=2 (1149 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Les invasions barbares
		Like Le Déclin, Les Invasions barbares presents itself as sort of a state of the union, a summing up, an overview.
		Les Invasions barbares's other strongest suit is - and this is a surprise - comedian Stéphane Rousseau, who gives a controlled, sober performance as Rémy's estranged son, Sébastien.
		LES INVASIONS BARBARES accomplishes everything it sets out to do as a tearjerking drama from Denys Arcand; what it isn't is amazing or revolutionary.
	www.hour.ca /film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=572 (985 words)

	Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions, 2003)
		As his friends and family come to vistit, the man that was once despised like street scum finds out that the people he thought hated him really don't hate him, and that those same people really would care to be with him during his final days.
		The Barbarian Invasions give us a dying man who is despised but loved enough to be given a fitting sendoff.
		Les Invasions barbares is a French Language film that starts off slow but picks up quickly.
	www.geocities.com /oscarmovs/barbarian.html (639 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Invasions barbares (Les)
		It's been a while but Arcand's follow-up to "Le Déclin de l'empire américain" is a movie that feels as though it were addressed to a community of viewers rather than just a vague audience.
		Describing 'Les invasions barbares', I could use any term, phrase, or expression that describes GODLY, but as not to sound so cliché, I give you the only word that I was able to judge worthy of such a masterpiece, it is, ladies and gentlemen, CELESTIAL!
		'Les invasion barbares' is a very interesting concept of life and death, very different of what we are use to seeing.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=5093 (2805 words)

	Neil Young's Film Lounge
		Les invasions barbares aka Invasion of the Barbarians : Canada (Can/Fr) 2003 : Denys ARCAND : 99 mins (domestic version 111 mins)
		The latter seems a slightly perverse decision: not because Croze isn’t good (she’s fine), but because hers is emphatically a relatively minor supporting role in a large ensemble clustering around the central figure of Remy (Remy Girard), a history professor whose friends and family rally round when he’s diagnosed with a terminal illness.
		While Decline focussed almost exclusively on Remy and his immediate circle, Invasions include the next generation: joining Remy’s ex-wife Louise (Dorothee Berryman) and various colleagues and/or lovers trading epigrams and bons mots at his bedside are his rich “capitalist” son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau) and Stephane’s fiancee Gaelle (Marina Hands).
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/barbarianinvasions.html (572 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Culture \| Films \| The Dying Art of Joie De Vivre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Quebec filmmaker was researching his script for The Barbarian Invasions, in which a wealthy young broker procures heroin as a pain reliever for his father, who's dying of cancer.
		If Invasions is the most soulful, least cynical film of Arcand's career, Robert thinks that's largely because he's become a father.
		In Invasions, there's a scene of a church official showing a basement of religious relics to an art appraiser who tells him they're worthless.
	www.macleans.ca /culture/films/article.jsp?content=20031124_70041_70041 (2606 words)

	The Barbarian Invasions
		Denys Arcand's THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS is a story about the humor, hope and unspoken bonds that hold family and friends together against the onslaughts of life in our contemporary times.
		THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS was awarded both the Best Screenplay Award (for Denys Arcand) and the Best Actress Award (for Marie-Josée Croze, in the role of a young drug addict who offers unusual assistance to Rémy) at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was an audience favorite.
		Arcand titled his film THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS, which is a reference in part to a television analyst's comments about the events of September 11, 2001, which have recently taken place in the story.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/barbarian_invasions/about.php (2349 words)

	Montreal Film Journal
		“Les Invasions Barbares” is writer-director Denys Arcand’s follow-up to 1986’s “Le Déclin de l’Empire Américain”, but while it revolves around the same group of friends and echoes some stylistic choices (the Steadycam shot over the opening titles, notably), it differs in many ways.
		The Barbarian Invasions of the title refer to the 9/11 attacks on the American Empire but also to the cancerous cells invading Rémy’s body.
		“Les Invasions Barbares” is a welcomed return to form for Denys Arcand, his best film in more than a decade.
	www.montrealfilmjournal.com /review.asp?R=R0000721 (605 words)

	The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) - Celebrity Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The scene where he turns over his classroom evoking nothing but presumably well-earned and richly deserved apathy from his students was the only truly genuine moment in the film, as he walks down the hall so easily replaced and immediately forgotten.
		Barbarian Invasions is rated R for profanity, drug use, and explicit sexual dialogue.
		This film is about the growth in understanding that happens as one grows older, the reconciliation with one's own disappointments in life and in the condition of the world, and the happiness returned to you from the people you loved.
	www.celebtop1000.com /ItemId/B0001XAPWE (1692 words)

	The Film Reference Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Les Invasions barbares, Denys Arcand’s enormously successful sequel to his iconic 1986 generational study Le D
		Les Invasions barbares demonstrates that neither Arcand nor the characters have lost any of the wonderfully observed acerbic wit that made Le D
		Les invasions barbares also won eight Jutra Awards, including those for Best Actress (Croze), Director, Screenplay and Film, and was nominated for ten Genie Awards.
	www.filmreferencelibrary.ca /index.asp?layid=44&csid1=415&navid=88&fid3=556 (604 words)

	Roy Dupuis Online Message Board -> Les invasions barbares - awards /successes
		According to the latest Cyberpresse article, Les Invasions Barbares has now taken 4.6m in box-office receipts, making it the 3rd highest grossing Quebecois film after Séraphin and Les Boys.
		Les invasions barbares is to be the opening film in the Toronto International Film Festival (4 - 13 Sep 2003).
		The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) easily passed muster with the demanding New York public.
	rd-online.ibforums.com /index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=319&s=831a14f382a9f382d3214da4d72db79d (1318 words)

	FACE \| Cinema \| Tournees \| Films - LES INVASIONS BARBARES THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
		Love for life, political ideals, beauty, the current state of the world and friendship are all recalled by the close-knit group.
		Winner of many awards, The Barbarian Invasions is packed with wit and emotion.
		Denys Arcand proves once again that he is a master at portraying life without embellishment and at poking fun at institutions such as the health care system and the Catholic Church.
	www.facecouncil.org /tournees/fichesfilms/lesinvasions.html (244 words)

	Take One: A director in his prime: Denys Arcand's Les Inv... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It happened while the veteran Quebec writer/director was early in production of Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions), the long-gestating sequel to Le Declin de I'empire americain (1986), his satire of 1980s attitudes and sexual mores.
		One of the reasons I came up with this idea is because of the love and respect there is between the cast members, lf I were to tell that story through those characters, then it would work, because I knew that these guys would smoke a joint until the last night.
		Still basking in the double prize win at Cannes, he's looking forward to taking Les Invasions to the Toronto International Film Festival, where he and his cast will walk up the red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall on opening night, September 4.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:109568315&refid=ink_tptd_mag (1732 words)

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