The Decline of the American Empire (1986)

Le Déclin de l'empire américain Four Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to cook dinner, and the conversation turns quickly to sex, affairs and getting older. Denys Arcand's comedy is almost all talk, and the talk is the pleasure: smart, vain, very funny people saying more than they should. It took the critics' prize at Cannes and best picture at the Genies, and it starts the cast's story that continues in The Barbarian Invasions, so watch this one first.