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This focus is especially poignant because 17 years ago Denys Arcand directed a film entitled The Decline of the American Empire, starring the same actors as Rémy and all his friends. With the reintroduction of these characters, Arcand crafts a comparison between the atmosphere among the youth of...
Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions, a multiple prizewinner at Cannes, is a comic valentine about a dying man too incorrigibly full of life to give it up. Remy was also a sexual obsessive. This is supposed to make him an endearing character, deserving of reconciliation with his family and...
The rumors at the 56th cannes Film Festival were so much more entertaining than the stuff on the Grand Palais screen, they deserve their own prizes. So here are our Kick-the-Cannes Awards. Best Pre-Festival Disaster Scenario: The Hell-no-we-won't-go rumor. After Gulf War...
Or--trying again--I said I felt as I had that night at the Muthaiga Club when Karen Blixen told us the coffee plantation was finished; hadn't been the same since Denys died.
The cheerleading slogan for Africa, coined by Tanzania's Julius Nyerere shortly after his country won its independence, was "We Must Run While They Walk." It caught the mood of euphoria and ambition, the dash of social heroism. Now the sense of heroic hope is mostly gone. Vast stretches of...