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The Decline of the American Empire

Starring: Dominique Michel, Doroth�e Berryman Director: Denys Arcand MPAA Rating:

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Actors: Dominique Michel, Doroth�e Berryman, Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi, R�my Girard
Directors: Denys Arcand
Writers: Denys Arcand
Producers: Pierre Gendron, Ren� Malo, Roger Frappier
Format: Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC, Import
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
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Studio: Koch Lorber Films
DVD Release Date: Oct 5 2004
Run Time: 101 minutes

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ASIN: B0002KPI3M

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Un incontournable québécois

Réalisé en 1986 par Denys Arcand, Le Déclin de l’empire américain porte un regard cinglant sur la bourgeoisie et les milieux universitaires québécois. Son scénario brillant aux répliques savoureuses servies par une brochette d’acteurs de haute tenue (D. Michel, D. Berryman, L. Portal, P. Curzi, R. Girard, Y. Jacques) lui a, tout naturellement, valu d’être finaliste aux oscars, sacré meilleur film canadien au festival de Toronto en 86, et récompensé par huit prix Génie et par le prix de la critique internationale à Cannes.

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Plus de 15 ans après sa sortie, Le Déclin de l’Empire américain, de Denys Arcand, reste encore le plus grand succès international du cinéma québécois. Un classique. Présenté au Festival de Cannes au printemps 1986, Le Déclin… s’est attiré un engouement immédiat. Le public français a couru voir cette “comédie canadienne” dans laquelle une poignée de professeurs universitaires parlent un peu de cœur et beaucoup de cul, lors d’un week-end à la campagne qui finit plus mal qu’il n’a commencé.

Le Déclin…, qui a obtenu une nomination aux Oscars, deux prix au Festival de Toronto et neuf prix Génie, a connu une carrière exceptionnelle. Son succès en salles a fait oublier qu’il s’agissait au départ d’un film à petit budget (ce que les Américains appellent un “talking heads movie”) et d’une comédie grinçante et pessimiste. En effet, si le scénario de Denys Arcand dessine des personnages truculents et regorge de dialogues savoureux, la critique que le cinéaste fait de la bourgeoisie québécoise, baignant dans le confort et l’indifférence, est cinglante.

Fin moraliste et amuseur doué, Arcand est aussi un excellent directeur d’acteurs, qui donne ici des rôles superbes à Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Geneviève Rioux, Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi, Yves Jacques et Gabriel Arcand. --Éric Fourlanty

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5.0 out of 5 stars Critism from the inside out with intelligence!, April 24 2005

By	Melanie Benoit "Mel is Mafalda" (Montreal) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Le D�clin de l'empire am�ricain (DVD)

This film is not just about men view on women or women view on men or sex viewed by men or sex viewed by women.
It is about Hystory. Denys Arcand is an hystorian first of all.
It also is about intellectuals leftist who became the new bourgeoisie.
It is about a part of the world, Qu�bec province in Canada, who changed immensely throught out the 60's and the 70's when its french intellectuals finally had the opportunity to educate them self and becoming their own leader in every profession from top to bottom. It is about the left politics view of a new born nation that in the 80's is already getting old and its leftist intellectuals are becoming exactly what they were fighting in their youth.
This movie has so many dimension it had to have a sequel 17 years later that answers every question that it was rising in the 80's with the sublime The Barbarian Invasions.
Both are a must see!

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