L'Âge des ténèbres
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| Directed by | Denys Arcand |
| Produced by |
Denise Robert Daniel Louis Dominique Besnehard |
| Written by | Denys Arcand |
| Starring |
Marc Labrèche Diane Kruger Sylvie Léonard Emma de Caunes Didier Lucien |
| Music by | Philippe Miller |
| Cinematography | Guy Dufaux |
| Edited by | Isabelle Dedieu |
| Distributed by | Alliance Films |
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104 minutes |
| Country | Canada France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $6.4 million |
Days of Darkness (French: L'Âge des ténèbres), also known as The Age of Ignorance, is a 2007 French Canadian sex comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger and Sylvie Léonard. It is the third part of Arcand's loose trilogy also consisting of The Decline of the American Empire (1986) and The Barbarian Invasions (2003). The film follows a depressed Quebec bureaucrat, who feeling insignificant, retreats into a fantasy world.
The film was screened out of competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It was nominated for four Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Jean-Marc Leblanc is a bureaucrat and a once passionate supporter of the Quebec sovereignty movement. His wife, Sylvie, and daughters are no longer interested in him. At work, he is repeatedly bothered by his superior Carole who berates him for issues such as taking longer breaks than allowed, and for calling a black Canadian co-worker a "Negro," though Jean-Marc insists he simply said his co-worker "slaves like a Negro" and the person the comment was made about was not personally disturbed by it. Faced with a complete lack of a sex life, he tells his co-workers he is left with masturbation.
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