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Denys Arcand's Le Declin de l'empire americain and Les Invasions barbares

Denys Arcand's Le Declin de l'empire americain and Les Invasions barbares

Loiselle, André

Paperback

Series: Canadian Cinema, Book 2

Film StudiesFilmmaking

ISBN10: 0802096239
ISBN13: 9780802096234
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.30
Language: English

The release of Denys Arcand's Le Déclin de l'empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire) in 1986 marked a major turning point in Quebec cinema. It was the first Québécois film that enjoyed huge critical and commercial success at home and abroad. Arcand's tragicomedy about eight intellectuals gathered around a dinner table relating sexy anecdotes became the top-grossing film of all time in Quebec and was the first Canadian feature to be nominated for an Oscar in the foreign-language category. Seventeen years later, Arcand won an Academy Award for the sequel, Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions), where the amusing insouciance of the thirty-somethings talking dirty in Le Déclin is replaced by a sense of moral responsibility and serene resignation.

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