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CLOSE TO THE END.(The Barbarian Invasions)(21 Grams)(Movie Review)

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In "The Decline of the American Empire" (1986), the French-Canadian writer-director Denys Arcand created a companionable erotic fiction. A group of university intellectuals gathered at a lakeside house outside Montreal for a weekend of food, gossip, and sex. These academic folk--the women as well as the men--were ebullient talkers and boasters who loved to fool around. Remy (Remy Girard), a boisterous philanderer, was at the center of the group, surrounded by his wife, two of his former mistresses, and male friends both straight and gay. In Arcand's new film, "The Barbarian Invasions," Remy, now in his fifties, is dying of cancer in a Quebec hospital. His wife, fed up ...

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