Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

SnoopyStyle It's 17 years after Denys Arcand's "The Decline of the American Empire" and this is a continuing story of these characters. Leftist Rémy (Rémy Girard) is in an overcrowded Montreal hospital. His estranged capitalistic son Sébastien returns from London to manipulate Quebec's healthcare system. Rémy is joined by his friends and family as they renew their chemistry. A TV commentator refers 9/11 as maybe the beginning of the great barbarian invasions. Sébastien gets his father sent to an American hospital and finally back to the cottage.It is a man in the twilight of his life having one final good times. Some say that your life flashes before your eyes. This is one long series of flashes. It is fun and unexpected. It is smart and feels like a good time with old friends. The old footage of pass goddesses is good for the cinephiles. There is also a sense of the changing world. I do like the older folks hanging out together more than the new younger additions. It's a great reunion.

Rockwell_Cronenberg You know those movies where a group of friends get together and the film consists of a series of conversations between them regarding their lives, loves and many interminglings? Well, take one of those and make the characters completely unlikeable, thin and not remotely interesting and you've got The Decline of the American Empire. Now take those worthless characters, age them twenty years and make one of them dying and you've got The Barbarian Invasions. Invasions is slightly more bearable thanks to a surprisingly rich, emotional performance by Marie-Josee Croze (surprising because someone of her skill shouldn't have the misfortune of being in a film like this), but both films are horrid experiences overall. You can feel writer/director Denys Arcand sitting behind the pages, writing these characters and smiling with delight over how witty and bold he finds their pattering on, but all that comes out is forced, pseudo-intellectual garbage.There's a disturbing irony to it all because the film glazes over these dark, significant themes like infidelity and drug abuse but Arcand's approach is so flat and vanilla that none of it gets explored with even the slightest bit of depth or intelligence. I have no idea how this film received such high praise from critics foreign and domestic. You can't live in a world where a true auteur such as Arnaud Desplechin is crafting ensemble character dramas that are so vivid and fascinating, and then look at this garbage and think it's anything worth watching.

runamokprods An intelligent, witty, barbed, but still emotional film about; death, family, friends, class, intellectuals, hard headed capitalists vs. soft headed socialists and more. A sequel (17 years later!) to 'Decline of the American Empire'. the film finds the same characters gathering together around the impending death from cancer of their Falstaffian friend Remy. While it's a bit 'prettified' about the pain and indignities of dying from cancer it's honest and funny and true about the compromises we make in life, the fact that few of us ever live up to our dreams and ideals, and even when we do, we sacrifice something in the process. A film where the final reconciliations feel earned and complex, not Hollywood easy. And where irony dances gracefully with sentiment.

JackBenjamin Decline can be beautiful, or it can be horrifying. Edward Gibbon's notion was that the Roman Empire was an organic thing and like any other it is born, grows to maturity, declines, and dies. Arcand -- like Remy -- seems to have a historian's eye when viewing the journey of life.I saw this right after watching Decline of the American Empire and find it impossible to separate the two. The characters in the former are sparkplugs, intellectual sponges, heirs of Dionysus. Here, they are seasoned, sound creatures who have achieved peace with age -- except for Remy.Like a true historian, Remy cannot die in peace until he passes his knowledge he's accumulated on to his heir. This is the foundation of civilization: the continual accretion of achievement, the building of a collective consciousness. Remy's life would have been a waste had he died and severed his link to posterity. And his son would have lived an emptier life without lessons learned from his father. When they reconcile, the torch is passed peacefully, almost religiously.This really is a beautiful, touching quilt of characters weaved over, under, around one another. It's rich with narrative color, and the chemistry between the actors is palpable. Most significantly, it captures the beauty and enormity of life, which is a rare thing for a film.