Mjeteconer Just perfect...

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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.

Ben Larson Writer/Director Denys Arcand gives us a film that dispels the myth that we will all die a happy death. Remy's son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau) lives in London and doesn't have anything to do with his father, who rejects him because of his capitalist ways, but he comes in and gets things done for his father. The Canadian hospital and the unions are not presented in a good light. Sebastian has to grease palms with money everywhere he turns. He also calls his father's old friends and associates to get them to visit. It really gets funny when he naively goes to the police to find a source for heroin as the morphine is no longer working to alleviate his father's pain. It is not only the Canadian health care system that is pilloried, but the Catholic Church, and the imperialism of many nations. It is truly a thinking person's film. There are so many great lines throughout and some great thoughts on life and death. While Nathalie (Marie-Josée Croze) helped him ease into death, his friends relieved their youth around him. He lived his life on his own terms, and he went out that way. I want more Denys Arcand.

lastliberal A life of wine, women, and, no, not song, but left-wing causes, has left Remy (Remy Girard) pretty much alone and dying from cancer.Writer/Director Denys Arcand gives us a film that dispels the myth that we will all die a happy death.Remy's son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau) lives in London and doesn't have anything to do with his father, who rejects him because of his capitalist ways, but he comes in and gets things done for his father. The Canadian hospital and the unions are not presented in a good light. Sebastian has to grease palms with money everywhere he turns. He also calls his father's old friends and associates to get them to visit. It really gets funny when he naively goes to the police to find a source for heroin as the morphine is no longer working to alleviate his father's pain.It is not only the Canadian health care system that is pilloried, but the Catholic Church, and the imperialism of many nations. It is truly a thinking person's film. There are so many great lines throughout and some great thoughts on life and death.While Nathalie (Marie-Josée Croze) helped him ease into death, his friends relieved their youth around him.He lived his life on his own terms, and he went out that way.I want more Denys Arcand.

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.