abdullah abdullah Sadly disappointed in the movie. after watching for evaluating high, and awards who harvested the film.I expected the movie idea is beautiful.But I was surprised at not less than expected and the idea very unusual.Does not deserve to reap the Oscars, and is not worth evaluating higher than 7.The film is beautiful but not worth the valuation it received, and does not deserve an Oscar.Writer and Director Denys Arcand they were able to eject the film better in terms of story and scenario.The members choose the best film Oscar I think they are wrong by choosing this film as the best film in 2003, as the best film in the world speaks a language other than English!!

human2 I didn't really have a good impression of this picture so I didn't see it even if it won an Oscar for "Best Foreign Film". I expected the usual boring low-budget story of the guy on his deathbed whom family come remembering tearfully the good times of the past in flashback. Personally I preferred the movie French-Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand made in 2008 following that one, "L'Age des Ténèbres", which I've seen at least 4 times at a local cinema. But this one is definitely among the best to come out of the city of Montreal. It's a completely fictional story but even I don't think I should be put to sleep, there's still things I would want to do with my life (the question would be more if any pain I may have to endure would make it worthwhile), somehow I relate to the sick father who accept the inevitability of death and accept it the day his family begin injecting him heroin illegally. I think everybody have to see it to make himself an idea, there's not much more to say without giving away spoilers except that it's really entertaining and there's not much risks of being bored watching it...

Boba_Fett1138 And once more here we have a movie that shows you in order to make a good and effective movie, all you need is a good script and some talented persons involved, both in front and behind the camera's. Good movies don't always need to cost a lot of money to become successful ones, both critically and financially.This Oscar winning Canadian movie is actually a sequel to the 1986 movie "Le déclin de l'empire américain", by the same director and also mostly the same cast. But is it also necessarily to see that movie first? Not really. It doesn't matter all that much for its story, I would imaging, though it probably will give the story and some of its characters some extra depth and emotions behind them.Thing with this movie is that you can take it as both a political movie/social commentary or simply as a drama. It all depends on how much you're reading between the lines. I for one simply took this as a drama and perhaps you have to be Canadian yourself to fully appreciate and understand everything this movie is trying to do and tell.The one and foremost thing I got out of this movie was that its story was telling you that you can live life all the way you want but in the end it will always be your family that will comfort- and bring you true joy and pleasure in life. And in that regard, this drama also truly works out very well.It's also because the very realistic characters. None of them are without his or hers flaws really and just like its story, nothing is ever black or white. Nothing and no one is truly good or evil and people all make their mistakes in life, no mater how good the indentation are. Yes, you could say that this is one of those movies that is basically being like a random slice of life, with realistic people and emotions in it.The movie of course also truly thrives on its great directing approach by Denys Arcand. He handles, the drama, the comedy and basically everything else in between very well and make it a very well balanced movie with all of its many ingredients and heavy subjects. Besides that, it's a very good looking movie, with a very distinctive style as well.Simply a good and effective movie, you can hardly say anything bad about.8/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

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.