The Decline of the American Empire

A spontaneously funny sex comedy!

101 mins
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.

Denys Arcand

Director

Denys Arcand

Screenplay

Gaétan Noiseux

Hairstylist

Jacques W. Benoit

Assistant Director

Monique Miranda

Second Assistant Director

Diane Boucher

Dialogue Editor

Louis Craig

Special Effects Supervisor

Serge Bouthillier

Title Designer

François Dompierre

Original Music Composer

René Malo

Producer

Guy Dufaux

Director of Photography

Gaudeline Sauriol

Production Design

Gaudeline Sauriol

Art Direction

Denis Sperdouklis

Costume Design

Richard Besse

Sound Designer

Adrian Croll

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Jean-Pierre Joutel

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Paul Dion

Sound Editor

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