The Fall of the American Empire (2018)
- Original title
- La chute de l'empire américain
- Directed by
- Denys Arcand
- Genre
- comedy drama, crime film, thriller film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 204 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Montreal man stumbles into a moral dilemma after finding bags of cash left behind from an armed robbery. He must decide what to do with the money while facing pressure from criminals and the law.
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What happens
The Fall of the American Empire (French: La chute de l'empire américain) is a 2018 Canadian crime thriller film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Alexandre Landry, Maxim Roy, Yan England and Rémy Girard. It is about a man (Landry) who, after an armed robbery in Montreal, discovers two bags of money and is unsure what to do with them. Based on a 2010 Old Montreal shooting, it is thematically related, but not a direct sequel, to Arcand's 1986 The Decline of the American Empire and 2003 The Barbarian Invasions. The film was released in Quebec on 28 June. It subsequently screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and at the Valladolid International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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