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Review
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In "Decline of the American Empire", Arcand explored the
meaning of human relationships in the materialistic world of
post-modern American materialism. With the dissolution of
traditional values, can love and marriage survive? What is
the meaning of fidelity? Is it even important? In
"Barbarian Invasions", Arcand reunites the same cast of
intellectual, philosophical men and women, and plays out
some of the issues raised in "Decline...", but this time the
stakes are higher. Remy is dying of cancer. His son,
Sebastien, has come back to Montreal to make his peace with
the old man, and see to his care. His old friends gather
warmly, to celebrate friendship, and honor his life. It is
a bitter sweet passage, filled with even more ambivalence
than "Empire...". Utterly intriguing.
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