Released Date:
2004-03-05
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
Canada, France
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (23819 Reviews)
Director:
Denys ArcandIn this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who 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 entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.
Released Date:
2006-11-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
Belgium, France
Runtime:
168 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (3608 Reviews)
Director:
Pascale FerranRoger Bohbot
Pascale Ferran
D.H. Lawrence (novel)
Pierre Trividic (dialogue)
Sir Clifford has returned from the Great War to his estate near Sheffield, paralyzed from the waist down. Lady Constance, his young wife, cares for him, but she's lifeless, enervated. Her physician prescribes the open air, and she finds a quiet retreat at the hut - the workplace - of Parkin, the estate's gamekeeper. The rhythms of nature awaken Connie - daffodils, pheasant chicks - and soon she and Parkin become lovers. She's now radiant. Parkin, too, opens up. Class distinctions and gender roles may be barriers to the affair becoming more. Connie's trip to France, with her father and sister, bring the lovers to a nuanced resolution.
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