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The Decline of the American Empire
The Decline of the American Empire
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THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

Le déclin de l'empire américain

Directed by Denys Arcand
Canada, 1986
Comedy

Synopsis

Four men and four women, all coming from the academic world, discuss their professional and sex lives around a diner, revealing themselves and their society as the evening goes by.

Synopsis

Four men and four women, all coming from the academic world, discuss their professional and sex lives around a diner, revealing themselves and their society as the evening goes by.

Our take

A wry, talkative sex comedy set at the height of ’80s capitalist fervor from Oscar®-winning Canadian auteur Denys Arcand. Mapping neurotic, middle-aged ennui onto its titular socio-political slump, Arcand paints a droll, cerebral panorama of the limits of academia and its accompanying anxieties.