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

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

  • 64% of users liked it
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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… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 7, 2007 Wide
Alliance Atlantis

Critic Reviews

  • Joseph Proimakis, Movies for the Masses

    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

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

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

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    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

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  • Laurence C


    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… More

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