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...Invasions), long-gestating sequel to Le Declin de l'empire americain (1986), his satire of 1980s attitudes and sexual mores. Les invasions, recently named as the gala opener to this year's Toronto International Film Festival, tracks the reaction of friends and family to the impending death of Le Declin's "sensual socialist," Remy (Remy Girard), the philandering Montreal academic who is as fond of sex as he is of intellectual discourse. The first scene shot was on a boat in the North Atlantic. It shows Sylvaine (Isabelle Blais), Remy's grown-up daughter, sending her ailing father a video postcard via email, expressing her love and concern for him. "When I saw it, I cried like crazy," Arcand said, speaking at the most recent Cannes Film Festival, where Les Invasions won awards for screenwriting and acting (Best Actress for Marie-Josee Croze). "And as I was crying, I was thinking, 'Poor Isabelle.' 1 knew what she was about to say every time, but I was just so moved by it. During the whole movie, I felt the same way. It's very strange. It's the first time did a movie like that, where I felt so moved by a story I wrote." His previous work has afforded many opportunities for a range of emotional responses. Anyone who recoiled in horror at the brutal gang-rape scene in Gina (1975), or who watched with wonder at the miraculous ending of Jesus de Montreal (1989), or who roared at the barbed humour of Le Declin de l'empire americain or Arcand's more recent satire Stardom (2000), may wonder how he...
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