Cinema at The Slade Centre, Gillingham North Dorset


The Barbarian Invasions 2004 Dir. Denys Arcand 99 mins shown September 2004 Best Foreign Language Film 2004 Academy Awards Cinema @ Home Guardian Review \| BBC Review For more information call 01747 821480 or email info@sladecentre.com
	Denys Arcand was struggling to write a script about the problems of the new century and impending death when it occurred to him that he should reunite the group of French-Canadian intellectuals, all of them lapsed Catholics in their thirties, who appeared in The Decline of the American Empire, the 1986 movie that made his reputation. A man dying of cancer tries to find peace and reconciliation with his estranged son, ex-wife and old friends "Warm, wise and witty, The Barbarian Invasions is a beautiful film" Nev Pierce, BBCi "A bleak, funny film about death, decay and change.....The film has an intelligent interest in ideas rare in the cinema.." Philip French, Observer