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presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution This final installment of Denys Arcand's trilogy Denys Arcand’s withering comedy about a middle-aged fantasist brought to an end the best edition of the Cannes Film Festival in years. Where “The Decline of the American Empire” focused on social ills, and “The Barbarian Invasions” was preoccupied with ideology, “The Fall of the American Empire” finds the 77-year-old Canadian legend turning his attention to the greatest moral catastrophe of our time: money.
You can do either good or bad. The news on Jean-Marc Leblanc's radio is … I’m painting this portrait; this is society as it is. What I know is that in between films, I keep notes on various stuff, stuff that interests me.
Arcand spoke with police officers who investigated and reporters who covered the story.“When you end up with tons of stuff like that … at some point you find a link. Architecturally, it’s horrendous … and the city has been very, very neglected.
You find something that’s ‘OK, it can start there,’ ” he said.The result is a film that examines big issues like luck and fate and a capitalist system that makes some people rich and happy, and leaves others out in the cold.But despite the title’s similarity to one of his most acclaimed films, “It’s a throwback to my first films. Also, Louis de Funès films are all-time comedy classics.
C.R.A.Z.Y, Léolo, Monsieur Lazar, and Denys Arcand films from Quebecois cinema. Directed by Denys Arcand. Completing the thematic trilogy that Denys Arcand began in 1986 with “The Decline of the American Empire,” and continued in 2002 with the Oscar-winning “The Barbarian Invasion,” “The Fall of the American Empire” is another of the Quebecois auteur’s playful and damning philosophical excoriations of societal values.
But if Arcand’s worldview hasn’t changed, his angle continues to grow more acute. But I live there and there is nowhere else to go,” he added.Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. Starring Marc Labrèche, Sylvie Léonard, Diane Kruger and Emma de Caunes. These people are sleeping on the streets. Do you know that you have native people sleeping on the street right now in Montreal and they have no place to sleep and they’ll be there next winter? It could be anything,” Arcand noted.One file Arcand compiled delved into money laundering while another file came out of an encounter with a high-priced escort he once met in Ottawa who flew there a couple of times a year to liaise with clients in the senior echelons of government.
If you want something more "light", I also recommend the comedy Cruising Bar.
For the French cinema, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are great emotional movies.
Newspapers Limited, One Yonge Street, 4th floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6 Despite what its title may appear to indicate, Denys Arcand's latest opus, « La chute de l'empire américain », is not the third chapter in a trilogy that would include "Le déclin de l'empire américain" and "Les invasions barbares".
The Fall of the American Empire is not, as some critics have espoused, the third and final part of a trilogy. Completing the thematic trilogy that Denys Arcand began in 1986 with “The Decline of the American Empire,” and continued in 2002 with the Oscar-winning “The Barbarian Invasion,” “The Fall of the American Empire” is another of the Quebecois auteur’s playful and damning philosophical excoriations of societal values.
Less of a sequel than it is a spiritual successor — there are no returning characters, and Arcand newcomers won’t have any trouble following the action — this thoroughly modern financial caper finds that America’s corruptive influence is still creeping up North, infecting its closest neighbor like a gangrenous rot that needs to be cut off at the knees.What else is new? Sign up for First Up, the Star's new daily email newsletter.The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star
That was back in the 1970s and I went away from there to do these intellectual films later on.
This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Republication or distribution of this content is 14A . At the Cumberland. The problem is some people have no tools,” he added.Arcand did take some care in offering a sombre portrait of Montreal’s homeless Indigenous people in the film’s final frames from some footage he shot one day on impulse.“I had no idea … how I was going to use that.