The Barbarian Invasions
“A comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.”
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
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Part of The Decline of the American Empire Collection
3 films
Cast
46 people
Rémy Girard
Rémy
Known for
Incendies
Human Trafficking
Stéphane Rousseau
Sébastien
Known for
Asterix at the Olympic Games
Fatal
Marie-Josée Croze
Nathalie
Known for
Into the Night
Tell No One
Dorothée Berryman
Louise
Known for
Scanners II: The New Order
Every Jack Has a Jill
Louise Portal
Diane Leonard
Known for
My Best Pals
The Guide to the Perfect Family
Dominique Michel
Dominique St. Arnaud
Also in
Catherine
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
Pierre Curzi
Pierre Citrouillard
Known for
The Fall of the American Empire
The New Life of Paul Sneijder
Yves Jacques
Claude
Known for
Napoleon
Laurence Anyways
Marina Hands
Gaëlle
Known for
Taboo
Jappeloup
Sophie Lorain
First Lover
Known for
Mambo Italiano
Johanne-Marie Tremblay
Sister Constance Lazure
Known for
Polytechnique
I Killed My Mother
Mitsou Gélinas
Ghislaine
Also in
Coyote
Alice's Odyssey
Denys Arcand Director · Pierre Aviat Composer Guy Dufaux Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $35M · Budget $8M · United States release November 21, 2003
Box office
Budget
$8,000,000
Worldwide gross
$34,883,010
Gross vs. budget
4.4×
Production
Pyramide Productions
Production
Cinémaginaire
Production
Production Barbares
Production
Alliance Atlantis
Production
StudioCanal
Studio
Astral Films
Production
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
Production
Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC)
Production
Société Radio-Canada
Production
Téléfilm Canada
Production
The Harold Greenberg Fund
Production
Canada · France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Les invasions barbares
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
Canada · May 1, 2003
Theatrical
United States · November 21, 2003
Limited theatrical
United States
August 30, 2003 · Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
October 9, 2003 · Premiere · Austin Film Festival
October 17, 2003 · Premiere · New York Film Festival
November 7, 2003 · Premiere · Hawaii Film Festival
March 5, 2004 · Theatrical
October 14, 2004 · Premiere · Austin Film Festival
Argentina
January 29, 2004 · Theatrical
Australia
April 1, 2004 · Theatrical
Austria
March 19, 2004 · Theatrical
Belgium
October 1, 2003 · Theatrical
Brazil
October 16, 2003 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
October 31, 2003 · Limited theatrical
Canada
September 4, 2003 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
September 19, 2003 · Premiere · Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival
Chile
May 21, 2004 · Theatrical
Czechia
January 22, 2004 · Premiere · Febio Film Festival
February 5, 2004 · Limited theatrical · Projekt 100
Denmark
August 17, 2003 · Premiere · Copenhagen International Film Festival
October 3, 2003 · Theatrical
Egypt
September 16, 2004 · Premiere · European Film Festival
January 5, 2005 · Theatrical
Finland
November 28, 2003 · Theatrical
France
May 21, 2003 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
September 24, 2003 · Theatrical
Germany
November 27, 2003 · Theatrical
Greece
December 26, 2003 · Theatrical
August 30, 2004 · Physical · DVD
Hong Kong SAR China
April 9, 2004 · Premiere · Hong Kong International Film Festival
June 17, 2004 · Theatrical
Hungary
June 3, 2004 · Theatrical
Iceland
April 2, 2004 · Theatrical
Ireland
February 13, 2004 · Premiere · Dublin Film Festival
Israel
January 1, 2004 · Theatrical
Italy
December 5, 2003 · Theatrical
Japan
April 24, 2004 · Limited theatrical · Tokyo
Kazakhstan
October 22, 2003 · Theatrical
Luxembourg
October 3, 2003 · Theatrical
Mexico
March 6, 2004 · Premiere · Muestra Internacional de Cine
July 16, 2004 · Limited theatrical
Netherlands
January 24, 2004 · Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
May 6, 2004 · Theatrical
Norway
October 16, 2003 · Premiere · Bergen International Film Festival
Peru
April 8, 2004 · Theatrical
Poland
October 10, 2003 · Premiere · Warsaw Film Festival
November 7, 2003 · Theatrical
Portugal
December 5, 2003 · Theatrical
Romania
March 12, 2004 · Theatrical
Russia
June 26, 2003 · Premiere · Moscow Film Festival
Serbia
March 5, 2004 · Premiere · Belgrade Film Festival
Slovakia
March 1, 2004 · Theatrical
Spain
October 28, 2003 · Premiere · Valladolid International Film Festival
December 19, 2003 · Theatrical
Sweden
November 28, 2003 · Theatrical
Switzerland
October 1, 2003 · Theatrical · French
November 27, 2003 · Theatrical · German
January 2, 2004 · Theatrical · Italian
Taiwan
March 6, 2004 · Limited theatrical
Thailand
January 24, 2004 · Premiere · Bangkok International Film Festival
July 29, 2004 · Limited theatrical
Türkiye
October 16, 2003 · Premiere · Istanbul FilmOctober Film Week
November 14, 2003 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
February 20, 2004 · Theatrical
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