The Left, ever the, advocates of secular progress, has seen the future and it s looking, well, apocalyptic. Their new vision was brought home to me recently during a private screening of Denys Arcand's latest film The Barbarian Invasions which has since won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Many readers will be familiar with Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire, which put him on the map as a major international filmmaker, in 1986. On the surface, a humorous look at the sexual antics of a group of Montreal intellectuals, the film was also read as a commentary on the failure of Quebec nationalists of Arcand's generation to see a mature, responsible nation into being.
Seventeen years later, Barbarian Invasions continues the story of the Decline characters with the central one, Remy, a washed-up university …
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