The Barbarian Invasions (2003)

Les Invasions barbares Rémy, one of the professors from The Decline of the American Empire, is dying of cancer, and his ex-wife calls their estranged son, a successful businessman in London, home to help. Old friends and old lovers gather around him. It is a comedy about death that earns its tears, with the same wicked dinner-table talk now edged with regret. It won the Oscar for best foreign language film, plus best screenplay and an acting prize for Marie-Josée Croze at Cannes. You can watch it cold, but it hits harder after the first film.