---
title: 'Days of Darkness (2007)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Denys Arcand'
released: '2007-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 104
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Canada'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/days-of-darkness-2007'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819953/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Days of Darkness (2007)

2007 · 104 min · Drama, Comedy · France, Canada

Original title: L'Âge des ténèbres

## Synopsis

Days of Darkness, also known as The Age of Ignorance, is a 2007 black comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger and Sylvie Léonard. Presented as the third part of Arcand's loose trilogy also consisting of The Decline of the American Empire (1986) and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), it was followed by a fourth film with similar themes, The Fall of the American Empire (2018). The film follows a depressed québecois bureaucrat who, feeling insignificant, retreats into a fantasy world.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Denys Arcand](https://cinepixo.com/people/denys-arcand)
- **Screenplay:** [Denys Arcand](https://cinepixo.com/people/denys-arcand)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Denys Arcand](https://cinepixo.com/people/denys-arcand), [Michel Rivard](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-rivard)
- **Producer:** [Dominique Besnehard](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominique-besnehard), [Denise Robert](https://cinepixo.com/people/denise-robert), [Philippe Carcassonne](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-carcassonne), [Daniel Louis](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-louis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Guy Dufaux](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-dufaux)
- **Editor:** [Isabelle Dedieu](https://cinepixo.com/people/isabelle-dedieu)

## Cast

- [Didier Lucien](https://cinepixo.com/people/didier-lucien)
- [Silvio Orvieto](https://cinepixo.com/people/silvio-orvieto)
- [Eugénie Beaudry](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugenie-beaudry)
- [Emma de Caunes](https://cinepixo.com/people/emma-de-caunes)
- [Laurent Baffie](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurent-baffie)
- [Danny Gilmore](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-gilmore)
- [Pierre Curzi](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-curzi)
- [Hugo Giroux](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-giroux)
- [Violette Chauveau](https://cinepixo.com/people/violette-chauveau)
- [Isabelle Roy](https://cinepixo.com/people/isabelle-roy)
- [Bernard Pivot](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-pivot)
- [Marie Michèle Desrosiers](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-michele-desrosiers)
- [Diane Kruger](https://cinepixo.com/people/diane-kruger)
- [Evelyne de la Chenelière](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyne-de-la-cheneliere)
- [Marc Labrèche](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-labreche)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/days-of-darkness-2007
Film facts: Wikidata (Q2579095); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.