The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)

Buy This Item The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) by Miramax  Available from Amazon  $17.99  on 11-14-2008     Academy Award(R) winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS is a provocative look at the many ties that bind a group of friends and lovers. It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor (Rémy Girard) to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life! Winner of the Best Actress (Marie-Josée Croze) and Best Screenplay awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival -- critics everywhere hailed this outstanding motion picture as one of the year's best! Reader Reviews This 2003 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film is definitely not a light,frothy piece of fluff.If you are settling in to be amused,BARBARIAN INVASIONS would not be the film for you.This Quebecian film from Denys Arcand (The Decline Of The American Empire) is fraught with symbolism of life,death,decline,change and is one of those,every- scene,every- word,every- character- stands -for- something films that in order to extrapolate all of the meaning you must pay strict attention.INVASIONS is a tightly written expose of the decline of not only the Quebecois and their policy choices over the last 50 years, but more largely an observant look at how people and their mores change and how they go through them.INVASIONS discusses euthanasia,education,social medicine,world history,religious belief,familial relationships,drug use,sex etc. and asks us not to judge it,but to observe it.That is very tough for some folks to do.This film offers NO answers,but rather raises questions.It is one of the singlemost profound pieces of film work that has elicited a lot of discussion afterwards.In fact, the DVD itself,offers a great open conversation with all of the actors concerning their interpretation of Arcand's work.One of the best films I have seen in a while.I am sorry that it took until now to see it.

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