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L'Âge des ténèbres (The Age of Ignorance) (Days of Darkness) (2007)

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In his dreams, Jean-Marc is a knight in shining armor, a star of stage and screen and a successful author who has women falling at his feet and into his bed. In reality, Jean-Marc is a nobody civil servant, insignificant husband, failed father and closet smoker. Will Jean-Marc be able to resist the temptations of his dreamland or will he decide to carve out a life of his own?

Unrated, 1 hr. 44 min.

Art House & International, Comedy

Alliance Atlantis

All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (2) | DVD (2)

An kai mayrohioymoristika apolaystiko, san American Beauty (1999) se pio allegro diathesi, ta Hronia tis Mayrilas ehoyn stin ekseliksi toys mia kapoia amihania, poy se krata monimos sto ypotoniko epipedo ton hahaniton

September 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

...a staggeringly disappointing effort from a genuinely talented filmmaker.

September 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Denys Arcand's follow-up to the superb Barbarian Invasion is a disappointingly acid-streaked, misanthropic satire about a Walter Mitty-like Everyman whose elaborately imagined fantasy life masks deep, unflinching pathological resentment

May 28, 2007 Comment
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Arcand's latest plays out like ''Modern Society Anxieties : Greatest Hits'' rather than the conclusion to a trilogy of nuanced, self-reflexive portraits on the bourgeois lifestyle. The existential exhaustment coursing through the film does, however, come to light in the form of a delicately affecting conclusion, and

November 2, 2009
liquidstone14

Super Reviewer

Denys Arcand 08 ist film fest

March 22, 2009
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Foreign Titles

  • Days of Darkness (L'Age des tenebres) (DE)
  • The Age of Ignorance (UK)
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