It’s been a while but Arcand’s follow-up to “Le Déclin de l’empire américain” is a movie that feels as though it were addressed to a community of viewers rather than just a vague audience. Like the original, it offers a kind of state of the union, with Arcand managing to nail the current zeitgeist with remarkable aplomb. The movie offers much rich banter and a stinging portrait of Quebec’s health care system, but it’s also suffused with something like grace. It’s thrilling to watch Arcand reach out and achieve some of his best work.
During tonight’s Tribeca Film Festival awards ceremony, which was held at the at the Conrad New York in New York, Kim Nguyen‘s Rebelle (War Witch) received the Founders Award for [...]
