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The Decline of the American Empire
Directed by
Denys Arcand
R
1986
1h 41m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.1
86%
82%
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Secrets are shared and spilled when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
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Cast of The Decline of the American Empire
Dominique Michel
Dominique
Dorothée Berryman
Louise
Louise Portal
Diane
Pierre Curzi
Pierre
Rémy Girard
Rémy
Yves Jacques
Claude
Geneviève Rioux
Danielle
Daniel Briere
Alain
Gabriel Arcand
Mario / Writer
Évelyn Regimbald
Theresa
Lisette Guertin
Alexandre Remy
Transvestite
Ariane Frédérique
Jean-Paul Bongo
Mustafa
Jean-Michel Dufaux
Extra (Uncredited)
Denys Arcand
Director
Mark Blandford
Writer
Jean-Claude Lauzon
Writer
Monique Proulx
Writer
Yvon Rivard
Writer
Catherine Ruelle
Writer
Louise Vandelac
Writer
Roger Frappier
Producer
René Malo
Producer
The Decline of the American Empire Ratings & Reviews
Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
What Arcand has devised is a kind of Nia Vardalos movie in tenured-faculty clothing: Our Big Fat Bourgeois Salon ... It trades only the crudest ironies and screenwriting mechanics.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
As a movie with a lot of clever talk about sex and love, this is pretty good. As a movie about the decline of the American empire it pales in comparison to the real thing.
Cinema Writer
Jay Antani
instead of being wickedly funny, it's repellent before becoming a total snore
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Emanuel Levy
Subtle and wittty in discussing sexual politics in the academic world, Denis Arcand's film deservedly won the Oscar for Foreign Film in 1986.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Give Empire credit for giving Woody Allen a run for his money in '86, but its force has all but vanished today.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Asks all the right questions about the sexual revolution and makes some interesting connections between eros and middle age.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
There's very little plot in Decline of the American Empire...but when the dialogue is this good and the characters this compelling, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Ryan Cracknell
Arcand's message might not be the happy, happy, joy, joy we have come to expect from our movies but he does shed some truth, no matter how hard it might be to digest.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is a movie where everybody talks about nothing but sex, and the real subject is wit.
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