The Decline of the American Empire
A film by Denys Arcand
| When a Montreal professor (Rémy Girard) and his wife (Dorothée Berryman) gather six of their erudite friends for a holiday in the country, the conversation naturally turns to sex. The men brag about their promiscuity while their female counterparts dish on their own exploits at a nearby gym. But a fun and titillating topic devolves into a cavalcade of hurt feelings and accusations when an unexpected dinner guest (Gabriel Arcand) reveals some shocking secrets. |
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CERN
A film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Award-winning director Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread, Abendland) delivers stunning images from inside the immense CERN, the research center in Switzerland where they try to recreate the big bang. Alternated by interviews with the experts who devised the “Large Hadron Collider,” the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, CERN gives an unprecedented insight into the complex experimental research institution and explores moments of tension between man and technology.
| Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States A film by Oliver Azam and Daniel Mermet “As long as rabbits don’t have historians, history will be written by the hunters.” With the tremendous success of his book, A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn literally transformed a generation’s conscience. This 2016 adaptation of Zinn’s masterpiece focuses on the rise of labour in the 19th century. |
