Showtime for The Fall of the American Empire playing Jul 24th, 2019 at 4:20 PM - Playhouse
"The Fall of the American Empire is like an economics class taught by Georges Simenon or Elmore Leonard. Denys Arcand has made a great, violent, socially relevant crime caper film." - Boston Herald
“Charged with alternating currents of droll wit, sardonic cynicism, and socialist-tinged idealism, writer-director Denys Arcand’s The Fall of the American Empire is a richly amusing rumination on the excesses and amorality of capitalism.
“It’s difficult at first to warm to this film’s would-be savior, Pierre-Paul Daoust (Alexandre Landry), who’s introduced as a self-pitying malcontent railing against the ‘stupidity’ of anyone who’s ever accomplished more than a well-educated individual such as himself.... [ return to movie page ]
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