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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Arcand’s film, it turns a family rupture into an incisive, compassionate clash of generations, values, resentment, and duty, with emotional force emerging through unsentimental conversation.
02
Why this pick
Its mordant humor and close-knit circle of longtime friends face mortality with the same blend of intellectual debate, affection, indignity, and painful practical compromises.
03
Why this pick
A stark, intimate examination of illness, devotion, and autonomy that shares the original’s refusal to sentimentalize end-of-life care, though in a much more austere register.
04
Why this pick
This wry, tender reunion between old friends facing terminal illness has a similarly talk-driven warmth, using everyday errands and barbed jokes to make grief feel lived-in.
05
Why this pick
An aging, emotionally difficult man confronts estranged family and his own legacy on a reflective journey—an elegant precursor to Arcand’s blend of regret, intellect, and reconciliation.
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01 / THE STORY
Seventeen years after the events of ''The Decline of the American Empire'', Sébastien is enjoying a successful career in quantitative finance in London when he receives a call from his mother, Louise, that his father and Louise's ex-husband Rémy is terminally ill with cancer. Sébastien is not enthused about seeing Rémy, whom he blames for breaking up the family with his many adultery. Rémy and his friends of the older generation are still largely social democracy and proponents of Quebec nationalism, positions seeming somewhat anachronistic long after the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. Rémy does not like Sébastien's career, lack of reading or fondness for video games.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Rémy
Sébastien
Louise
Diane
Dominique
Claude
Pierre
Nathalie, la fille de Diane
