Call Denys Arcand a cinematic alchemist. In The Barbarian Invasions, he touches what could have been leaden and turns it into finespun threads of gold.

The film is a marvellous, long-awaited sequel to his own 1986 masterwork, The Decline Of The American Empire. We meet many of the same characters, their offspring, and a clutch of new lovers and friends, 17 years later.
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