A comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives.
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Directed byDenys Arcand
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Language
- FR
- Released
- May 1, 2003
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Revenue
- $34,883,010
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Featuring
Cast & crew
Rémy Girard
Rémy
Stéphane Rousseau
Sébastien
Marie-Josée Croze
Nathalie
Dorothée Berryman
Louise
Louise Portal
Diane Leonard
Dominique Michel
Dominique St. Arnaud
Pierre Curzi
Pierre Citrouillard
Yves Jacques
Claude
Marina Hands
Gaëlle
Sophie Lorain
First Lover
- Directed by
- Denys Arcand
- Written by
- Denys Arcand
- Produced by
- Daniel LouisDenise Robert
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