2 Movies Starring Louise Portal

The Decline of the American Empire

The Decline of the American Empire

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-11-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (5850 Reviews)

Director:

Denys Arcand

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Denys Arcand

Gabriel Arcand (collaborating writer)

Mark Blandford (collaborating writer)

Jean-Claude Lauzon (collaborating writer)

Monique Proulx (collaborating writer)

Yvon Rivard (collaborating writer)

Catherine Ruelle (collaborating writer)

Louise Vandelac (collaborating writer)

Fullplot:

Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcèe) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. The discussion? Well, you can guess it... However, a ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.

Heading South

Heading South

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-01-25

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Canada

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (2315 Reviews)

Director:

Laurent Cantet

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Laurent Cantet (scenario)

Robin Campillo (scenario)

Dany Laferrière (based on three stories from the book "La Chair du Maètre" by)

Sandy Whitelaw (dialogue: English translation)

Fullplot:

Haiti, late 1970's. Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies, on the wrong side of forty or fifty-odd, going through an enchanted interlude. Lonely, forsaken, neglected by men in their native countries, they can indulge here in carnal exultation without shame, thanks to handsome local young men they pay a few dollars. Ellen is a Boston French literature professor, Brenda, an unfulfilled wife from Savannah, Georgia and Sue, a sexually frustrated but good-natured Canadian factory worker. In this second garden of Eden they don't care too much about the neighboring poverty nor about Baby Doc's violent dictatorship. The trouble is that that two of the three women have sights on a single man, Legba. And Legba is beginning to be fed up with being a stud...

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