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The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Dominique Michel, Dorothee Berryman, Louise Portal, Genevieve Rioux, Pierre Curzi
DVD Info
Release:
May 10, 2004
DVD Features:
- Region (unknown)
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Dolby Digital - French
- Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
- Trailer 1. French
Reviews
instead of being wickedly funny, it's repellent before becoming a total snore
Give Empire credit for giving Woody Allen a run for his money in '86, but its force has all but vanished today.
Asks all the right questions about the sexual revolution and makes some interesting connections between eros and middle age.
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.
Através de suas conversas casuais (embora com efeitos estudados), os personagens deste filme estabelecem um vivo retrato das relações humanas – especialmente do sexo, claro.
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.


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