The release of Denys Arcand's Le D?clin de l'empire am?ricain (The Decline of the American Empire) in 1986 marked a major turning point in Quebec cinema. It was the first Qu?b?cois film that enjoyed huge critical and commercial success at home and abroad. Arcand's tragicomedy about eight intellectuals gathered around a dinner table relating sexy anecdotes became the top-grossing film of all time in Quebec and was the first Canadian feature to be nominated for an Oscar in the foreign-language category. Seventeen years later, Arcand won an Academy Award for the sequel, Les...