a thought-provoking, entertaining drama about a courier driver who stumbles upon an armed robbery and ends up with two big bags holding millions of dollars in cash

The Decline of the American Empire — is a thought-provoking, entertaining drama about a courier driver who stumbles upon an armed robbery and ends up with two big bags holding millions of dollars in cash.

satire

(The Decline of the American Empire) is a brilliant satire of the male/female wars among a group of middle-aged, middle-class denizens of Montreal, all staged around a major meal at a country retreat on the shores of Lake Memphremagog.

a 1986 Canadian sex comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi and Dorothée Berryman

The Decline of the American Empire () is a 1986 Canadian sex comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi and Dorothée Berryman.

a Canadian film about a group of intellectual academics that seem to talk an awful lot about sex

The Decline of the American Empire is a Canadian film about a group of intellectual academics that seem to talk an awful lot about sex.

a classic case-study for - students of history being taught historiography how the concerns, fears, theories, and beliefs of the current age are imposed upon the past in order to explain history

Indeed, the decline of the Empire is a classic case-study for students of history being taught historiography - how the concerns, fears, theories, and beliefs of the current age are imposed upon the past in order to explain history.

Epic

Epic, meanwhile, is a public and political genre, concerned with the rise and fall of empires.