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Summary

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.

Details

Release Date: June 19, 1986

Runtime: 101 minutes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Rating: 6.8/10 (154 votes)


The Decline of the American Empire Collection

  • The Decline of the American Empire

    The Decline of the American Empire

    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.

  • The Barbarian Invasions

    The Barbarian Invasions

    In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

  • Days of Darkness

    Days of Darkness

    Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?


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Cast

  • Dominique Michel

    Dominique Michel

    Dominique

  • Dorothée Berryman

    Dorothée Berryman

    Louise

  • Louise Portal

    Louise Portal

    Diane

  • Pierre Curzi

    Pierre Curzi

    Pierre

  • Rémy Girard

    Rémy Girard

    Rémy

  • Yves Jacques

    Yves Jacques

    Claude

  • Geneviève Rioux

    Geneviève Rioux

    Danielle

  • Daniel Brière

    Daniel Brière

    Alain

  • Gabriel Arcand

    Gabriel Arcand

    Mario

  • Lisette Guertin

    Lisette Guertin

  • Jean-Michel Dufaux

    Jean-Michel Dufaux

    Extra (Uncredited)