THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

LA CHUTE DE L’EMPIRE AMÉRICAIN

By Denys ARCAND

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Drama - Completed 2018

Denys Arcand's thematic successor to The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions centres on a young man whose life is changed when he finds two bags of cash after an armed robbery.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2018
Special Presentations
Busan IFF 2018
World Cinema
Stockholm IFF 2018
Open Zone
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur 2018
AVANT-PREMIERES
Warsaw FF 2018
Special Screenings
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Duration
    • 129 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Denys ARCAND
    • Producer(s)
    • Denise ROBERT
    • Synopsis
    • Pierre-Paul Daoust, 36, an intellectual with a PhD
      in philosophy is forced to work as a deliveryman
      to afford a decent living. One day, while delivering
      a parcel, he gets caught in a hold up gone terribly
      wrong: two dead and millions in money bags
      laying on the ground. Pierre-Paul is confronted
      with a dilemma: leave empty handed, or take the
      money and run?

      This new Denys Arcand film takes a witty yet
      touching look, as only Arcand knows how, at the
      predominance of money in a society where all
      other values seem to have crumbled.