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The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Directed by Denys Arcand
“A spontaneously funny sex comedy!”
Comedy, Drama · 1h 41m
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
Cast
Dominique Michel
Dorothée Berryman
Louise Portal
Pierre Curzi
Rémy Girard
Yves Jacques
Geneviève Rioux
Daniel Brière
Gabriel Arcand
Lisette Guertin
Crew
- Director
- Denys Arcand
- Screenplay
- Denys Arcand
- Writer
- Gabriel Arcand, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Catherine Ruelle, Yvon Rivard, Louise Vandelac, Mark Blandford, Monique Proulx
- Director of Photography
- Guy Dufaux
- Original Music Composer
- François Dompierre
- Editor
- Monique Fortier
- Producer
- Roger Frappier, René Malo
Details
- Original title
- Le Déclin de l'empire américain
- Release date
- 1986-06-19
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- English, French
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Corporation Image M & M, Societe Radio Cinema, ONF | NFB, Malofilm, La Societe Generale du Cinema du Quebec, Téléfilm Canada, Société Radio-Canada
- Budget
- $1,800,000
- Box office
- $30,000,000