Denys Arcand

Denys Arcand, born in 1941 in Deschambault, in Quebec, studied history at the Université de Montréal and in 1963 joined the National Film Board, where he made documentaries; one of them, on textile workers, was held back by the Board for six years. He moved to fiction in the early seventies. Awarded three times at the Cannes Film Festival, he received the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004, the first for Canada in that category, and has directed more than twenty films and documentaries.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Decline of the American EmpireLe Déclin de l'empire américainDenys Arcand · 1986Cinema