During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 50 wins & 37 nominations total
- Sister Constance Lazure
- (as Johanne Marie Tremblay)
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Did you know
- TriviaIt is the first sequel ever to win the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars.
- GoofsThe position of the cars outside the window changes when Sébastien first meets Nathalie in the restaurant.
- Quotes
Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.
- Alternate versionsThe movie exists in the wide-release 98-minute international version and also a "112-minute version" available on DVD.
- ConnectionsEdited from Cielo sulla palude (1949)
- SoundtracksL'Amitié
Music by Gérard Bourgeois
Lyrics by Jean-Max Rivière
Performed by Françoise Hardy
(c) 1965 by éditions Alpha
(p) 1965 Disques Vogue
By kind permission of BMG France
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.
- craigp81
- Mar 8, 2007
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- Also known as
- Invasion of the Barbarians
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Box office
- Budget
- CA$6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,544,975
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $461,363
- May 11, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $34,883,010
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1