Les Invasions Barbares (2003)

	Also Known As: The Barbarian Invasions
	Year of first release: 2003
	Director: Denys Arcand (Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain)
	Actors:  Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau
	Country: CDN
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 10.06.2014, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: When one of them is dying, a group of friends gather again from around the world to keep him compan, while his own son he barely knows is arranging a better end of life for him.
Review: Here is the long-awaited sequel to The Decline of the American Empire. In my case I watched them only a few days apart. Unlike the first movie, I cannot add the Comedy genre to Drama to describe this one. Indeed there are a few relaxed moments when the friends talk together and remind of their earlier life, but mostly the movie deals with a man facing his approaching death, and his son trying to find his place in this context. I don't often watch this kind of movie, but I fould the reactions of the man facing his end very well reproduced: Anger, Confusion, Loneliness, Fear. (I got this list from Star Trek Into Darkness). I could add Denial: the man does not understand why he has to die. Another interesting aspect is the behavior of the son who hasn't interacted much with his father since he left home. He is now very rich, and the only way he knows how to help his father is by spending money to buy things (and people) to make him suffer less. Towards the end he will learn of free things he can offer as well. If The Decline of the American Empire was about sex and the couple, The Barbarian Invasions is about getting old, facing your children and your legacy, and eventually death.
Rating: 7 /10