The Decline of the American Empire
1986 · 101 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 8,894 VOTES · DIR. Denys Arcand
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 293 lines
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01:14:38 That's what l like about histoy, it's so reassuring.
01:15:32 the world would end.
01:16:09 l'm about to come.
01:17:09 the national debt is out of control...
01:18:07 Yes, absolutely.
01:18:46 our mindset precludes any otherform of experience.
01:19:44 You said so yourself.
01:20:51 l think that for men like you...
01:21:33 Well, who knows...
01:22:48 There's librium.
01:23:45 lntellectuals rarely make good parents.
01:24:29 l'm too tired.
01:25:08 Why did you do it?
01:25:42 What?
01:26:34 lt's not wonh cying over.
01:27:27 He told me he laid Louise's sister...
01:29:48 lt takes two cups of coffee to hold me together.
01:33:33 There was blood in my urine again.
01:34:14 Pierre and Danielle won't last more than a year.
01:35:05 Why do you ask?
01:35:42 Come on, he spent one night...
01:36:14 his wife told him she had an affair.
01:36:41 Me too, when it comes to that.
02:05:04 l don't go funher.