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Weekend Rental: The Decline of the American Empire

Tomorrow the Cannes film festival will close with a film from Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand.

Published on May 26, 2007

Tomorrow the Cannes film festival will close with a film from Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand. This is not his first visit at the festival; way back in 1986 he brought what was to be the first in a trilogy of films. The Decline of the American Empire was about female and male relationships in contemporary society. Arcand would revisit the cast of characters almost two decades later – Les Invasions Barbares was also showcased at Cannes and it best up some awards as well. Tomorrow The Age of Ignorance (L'Âge des ténèbres) receives its world premiere, and for those who aren’t making the trek to the south of France can visit some of the themes that Arcand loves to indulge in.

This weekend we suggest: Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).