Le déclin de l'empire américain (1986)
(Decline of the American Empire)
Country: CAN
Technical: col 101m
Director: Denys Arcand
Cast: Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel
Synopsis:
Three Montreal couples meet for weekend meal together and sexual revelations follow.
Review:
A talk piece with one topic of conversation but also a meticulously directed and good-looking film. Thanks to the script and cast it is uproariously funny in the first half and convincingly sober-serious when the chips fall later on. One of the most intelligent and astute films of the eighties, its central thesis is that when screwing is all people can think of it signals the end of a culture.
(Decline of the American Empire)
Country: CAN
Technical: col 101m
Director: Denys Arcand
Cast: Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel
Synopsis:
Three Montreal couples meet for weekend meal together and sexual revelations follow.
Review:
A talk piece with one topic of conversation but also a meticulously directed and good-looking film. Thanks to the script and cast it is uproariously funny in the first half and convincingly sober-serious when the chips fall later on. One of the most intelligent and astute films of the eighties, its central thesis is that when screwing is all people can think of it signals the end of a culture.
(Decline of the American Empire)
Country: CAN
Technical: col 101m
Director: Denys Arcand
Cast: Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel
Synopsis:
Three Montreal couples meet for weekend meal together and sexual revelations follow.
Review:
A talk piece with one topic of conversation but also a meticulously directed and good-looking film. Thanks to the script and cast it is uproariously funny in the first half and convincingly sober-serious when the chips fall later on. One of the most intelligent and astute films of the eighties, its central thesis is that when screwing is all people can think of it signals the end of a culture.