Âge des ténèbres, L' (2007)

Réalisateur:

Denys Arcand

Scénariste:

Denys Arcand (writer)

Release Date:

26 septembre 2007 (France)

Genre:

Comedie

Plot:

Jean-Marc Leblanc (Labrèche), a desperate civil servant, escapes reality as we all know it, to imagine himself as the hero in imaginary adventures. |

Awards:

10 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

A new comic approach to middle age by Denny Arcand

Ensemble

Marc Labrèche	...	Jean-Marc Leblanc
Diane Kruger	...	Véronica Star
Sylvie Léonard	...	Sylvie Cormier-LeBlanc
Caroline Néron	...	Carole Bigras-Bourque
Rufus Wainwright	...	Le jeune prince / Le prince chantant
Macha Grenon	...	Béatrice de Savoie
Emma de Caunes	...	Karine Tendance
Didier Lucien	...	William Chérubin
Rosalie Julien	...	Laurence Métivier
Jean-René Ouellet	...	Policier / St-Bernard de Clairvaux
André Robitaille	...	Gilles Sansregret
Hugo Giroux	...	Thorvald
Christian Bégin	...	Le motivateur par le rire
Pierre Curzi	...	Pierre
Gilles Pelletier	...	Raymond Leclerc
Johanne-Marie Tremblay	...	Constance Lazure
Michel Rivard	...	Le curé
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Denys Arcand
Thierry Ardisson	...	Himself
Laurent Baffie	...	Himself
Paule Baillargeon	...	Dame à la minerve
Eugénie Beaudry	...	Furie No. 3
Jean-Robert Bourdage	...	(voice)
Benoît Brière	...	Médecin
Marie-Chantal Cadieux	...	Valkyrie #1
Jean Antoine Charest	...	Employé pompe funèbre
Violette Chauveau	...	Dame au banquet
Monia Chokri	...	Aziza
Véronique Cloutier	...	Line
René Richard Cyr	...	Metteur en scène
Evelyne de la Chenelière	...	Guylaine
Marie-Michèle Desrosiers	...	Dame de choeur
Karen Elkin	...	Furie No. 2
Danielle Fichaud	...	Dame du train 2e
Claude Gauthier	...	Viking #1
Danny Gilmore	...	Ecuyer du Prince noir No.1
Michel Olivier Girard	...	Photographe
Françoise Graton	...	Madame Leblanc
Natalie Hamel-Roy	...	Paule
Chantal Lacroix	...	Lucie
Jacques Lavallée	...	Romaric
Gaston Lepage	...	Gardien de sécurité
Elizabeth Lesieur	...	Nicole Pâquet-Plourde
Pauline Martin	...	Mme. Sigouin-Wong
Kesnamelly Neff	...	Nancy Toupin
Silvio Orvieto	...	Monsieur Gallucio
Bernard Pivot	...	Himself / L'homme qui remet le Goncourt
Luc Proulx	...	Homme à l'hospice
Camille Léonard Rioux	...	Mégane Cormier-Leblanc
Isabelle Roy	...	Louise
Lise Roy	...	Voisine alcoolique
Nicholas Simard	...	Viking #2
Rychard Thériault	...	Albert Mondoux
Gisèle Trépanier	...	Directrice de l'hospice

Réalisé par
Denys Arcand

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Denys Arcand		writer

Produit par
Dominique Besnehard	....	co-producer
Philippe Carcassonne	....	co-producer
Daniel Louis	....	producer
Denise Robert	....	producer

Musique originale
Philippe Miller

Image
Guy Dufaux

Montage
Isabelle Dedieu

Distribution des rôles
Lucie Robitaille

Création des décors
François Séguin

Décorateur de plateau
Suzanne Cloutier
Sylvie Desmarais

Création des costumes
Judy Jonker

Maquillage
Evelyne Byot	....	key makeup artist
Adrien Morot	....	special makeup effects supervisor
Sabin Paradis	....	key hair stylist
Diane Simard	....	key makeup artist

Directeur de production
Michel Chauvin	....	production manager
Hélène Grimard	....	production supervisor
George Jardon	....	post-production supervisor
Pierre Lapointe	....	unit manager
Jose Uria	....	assistant unit manager

Assistant réalisateur
Fabrice Barrilliet	....	first assistant director: second unit
Emilie Malo	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Ian Lavoie	....	property master

Technicien du son
Philippe Amouroux	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jocelyn Caron	....	sound recordist
Edouard d'Heucqueville	....	sound mix technician
Marie-Claude Gagné	....	sound
Cyril Holtz	....	sound re-recording mixer
Paul Lainé	....	sound recordist
Stéphane Soye	....	boom operator

Effets spéciaux
Simon Martineau	....	special effects assistant
Guillaume Murray	....	special effects supervisor
Sebastien Roussel	....	special effects
Martin Williams	....	special effects rigger

Visual Effects
Thierry Delattre	....	visual effects supervisor
Jean-Francois Houde	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Ara Khanikian	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Richard Martin	....	visual effects supervisor: Hybride
Benjamin Ribière	....	digital compositor
Laurent Spillemaecker	....	compositor
Peter Toufidis	....	matte painter: Hybride

Cascadeur
Mike Chute	....	stunt coordinator
Jean Frenette	....	stunt driver
François Gauthier	....	stunts
Yves Langlois	....	stunt coordinator (Medieval Re-enactment)
Stéphane Lefebvre	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Pierre Beaulieu	....	best boy
Pierre Beaulieu	....	electrician
Charles Beetz	....	rigging gaffer
Stephane Boisvert	....	generator operator
Sarah Couvelaire	....	assistant camera
François Daignault	....	camera operator
Amelie Duceppe	....	third assistant camera
Vincent Gallot	....	daily focus puller
Francois Gamache	....	second assistant camera: second unit
David Giasson	....	grip
Eric Lefèbvre	....	electrician
Marion Mailhot	....	best boy grip
Dany Racine	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Jan Thijs	....	still photographer
Paul Viau	....	gaffer

Casting Department
Carole Dionne	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Richard Brunet	....	dresser
Pauline Fortin	....	wardrobe coordinator
Christine Grenier	....	wardrobe mistress
Art Reasonover	....	key set costumer

Editorial Department
Stéfanie Guadagnino	....	assistant editor
Arthur Montreuil	....	film timer

Divers
Guillaume Beaudoin-Aubin	....	production assistant
Guillaume Beaudoin-Aubin	....	set runner
Sandrine Boulet	....	production assistant
Marie-Christine D'Amours	....	production secretary
Maxime Delauney	....	production assistant
Laure Flammarion	....	production assistant
Marie La Haye	....	script supervisor
Sylvie Laurin	....	production accountant
Serge Lavigueur	....	armor coordinator
Denis Paquette	....	location manager
Marjolaine Perron	....	assistant production accountant
Lyne Pomerleau	....	production coordinator
Paolo Quintans	....	set production assistant
Martine Rochette	....	assistant location manager
Marin Valois	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Cinémaginaire Inc.
• Mon Voisin Productions

Distributors

• Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (2008) (Canada) (all media)
• Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm (2007) (Canada) (all media) (Quebec)
• BIM Distribuzione (2007) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Cinéart (2007) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Studio Canal (2007) (France) (all media)

Technicien des effets spéciaux

• Hybride Technologies

Other Companies

• Studio Canal  international sales

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Days of Darkness (Canada: English title)
The Age of Ignorance (International: English title)

Durée:

Canada:104 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Pays:

Canada

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Brazil:16 | Canada:14A

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Laval, Québec, Canada

Company:

Cinémaginaire Inc.

Anecdotes:

Canada's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).

A new comic approach to middle age by Denny Arcand

By mid eighties, living in South America, I attended a showing of "The Decline of the American Empire" in a long (festival) cut. There were a lot of buzz about this Canadian movie; it was serious Oscar contender, had won in Cannes and so on. For about two hours, I witnesses four women talking about sex, four men talking about sex and the eight together talking about sex. All of them a bunch of intellectual college professors (with some socialist political tendencies). Against all odds and expectations, it was one of the most funny and interesting movies I ever saw.

Twenty years later, the same eight characters came back for a follow up with a few new ones. It was called "The Barbarian Invasions". This time, sex was not the subject but the social environment and changes. People had matured and political tendencies too. Aside from winning the Oscar this time, it was no better but a perfect companion to the first one. Now, few years later comes "L' Age des Tenebres" (in English "The age of ignorance" or "The Time of Darkness"). It was labeled as the third part of a trilogy but it has no relation with the other two aside from one character briefly appearance.

This time, we follow the story of Jean-Marc Leblanc. An underachiever public servant; married to an ambitious real estate broker who ignores him (well, mutually). Jean Marc survives his frustrations on fantasies (some of them sexual with four gorgeous women he has some kind of relation. When his wife leaves him on a job opportunity, he falls down a tries to get a grip of the real word, however things are not that easy. If you think it looks like "American Beauty" you are not completely wrong but this movie goes further and not as PC as "American Beauty" did. Well, at least there is no need to kill the main character. "L' Age des Tenebres" is coming of age (or a coming to terms) comedy about people facing reality a little too late.

It falls short compared to the other two parts; even when it is probably more commercial and accessible but compared to similar attempts from other directors is really a masterpiece.