Invasions barbares, Les (2003)

Regisseur:

Denys Arcand

Drehbuchautor:

Denys Arcand (writer)

Premierendatum:

24. September 2003 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Komödie

Werbezeile:

A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.

Plot:

During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.

Plot Keywords:

Country House | Finance | Gay Couple | Montreal | Police

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 37 wins & 19 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Key Themes are Not 'Anti-capitalism, Anti-Americanism'

Besetzung

Rémy Girard	...	Rémy
Stéphane Rousseau	...	Sébastien
Dorothée Berryman	...	Louise
Louise Portal	...	Diane
Dominique Michel	...	Dominique
Yves Jacques	...	Claude
Pierre Curzi	...	Pierre
Marie-Josée Croze	...	Nathalie
Marina Hands	...	Gaëlle
Toni Cecchinato	...	Alessandro
Mitsou	...	Ghislaine
Sophie Lorain	...	First Lover
Johanne-Marie Tremblay	...	Sister Constance Lazure
Denis Bouchard	...	Duhamel
Micheline Lanctôt	...	Nurse Carole

Alternativ:

The Barbarian Invasions (International: English title) (USA)
Invasion of the Barbarians (International: English title)
Invasion der Barbaren, Die (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexual dialogue and drug content.

Länge:

99 Min | Canada:112 Min (DVD version)

Produktionsland:

Canada | France

Sprache:

Französisch | Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Malaysia:18PL | France:U | Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Brazil:16 | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:14A | Denmark:7 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Italy:T | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/16 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R | Spain:13 | Iceland:12

Drehorte:

Le Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Firma:

Astral Films

Dies und das:

It is the first sequel ever to win the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars.

Pannen:

Crew oder Equipment sichtbar: After Rémy and everyone else watch the final video message of Sylvaine on Sébastien's laptop, a man's left hand removes the laptop plug on the viewer's left side as Sébastien takes the laptop away. All the characters present at the chalet, at the time, are accounted for in the shot; save Nathalie who is inside preparing the heroin.

Dialogzitate:

Rémy: I wish that one day you will have a son like you.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Soundtrack:

Concerto Op. 6 No. 5 in D major by Händel

Key Themes are Not 'Anti-capitalism, Anti-Americanism'

There seems to be a lot of passion over the claim that the film is anti-American, anti-capitalist, etc. Many criticisms seem to dismiss the humanistic elements in this film - pain, death, reconciliation - because it has a vague intellectual, leftist, socialist face. My experiences in Canada tend to suggest that the Canadians have plenty of targets down south that deserve criticism. But does it matter? Whether the film included all these elements, the key theme was the preparation for death and reconciliation between those who will not see each other again.

Doesn't anybody cry over loss? Are we scared of those things after death? or do we fear the process of dying - the loss of the person, their presence? A person died in this film - right before us - 100 minutes of decline -and what a sigh of relief that there was reconciliation in the end! That there was time to speak, time to be present. Consider the contrast between the daughter on the yacht - stranded, distant - and the son near his father. The great pain that welled up in me to see that there was no opportunity for her left.

I don't cry in films, but I did here. I feared dying more than ever - other people's deaths, and mine - and I resolved to prepare for it.