Le déclin de l'empire américain (1986)

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   Mahler1860

   Felt a bit like Woody Allen but without the laughs; never felt any real sympathy or resonance with any of the characters...individual bits (as a male) certainly, but in the entirety none of them felt like fully developed humans.
   
   Disappointing ultimately. 9 years 10 months ago
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   the3rdman

   Clever, but also trite and lacking in subtlety. After an hour of improbable conversation harping on the same, single note, things get rather tedious. I also noticed an undercurrent of mild racism. Arcand may be critiquing a society that has regressed into shallow hedonism, but the film is too celebratory to be convincing. Nothing happens, everybody is smug and self-satisfied, and nobody shuts up. Final verdict: wankery. A waste of intellectualism--which is, perhaps, the whole point, but doesn't make it a better film. 10 years 9 months ago
3. 

   jlfitz

   Talk, talk, talk. By the end, it just becomes boring. 11 years 1 month ago

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