filming_location the decline of the american empire
Jesus of ___MASK95___ is a 1989 French Canadian comedy - drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand , and starring Lothaire Bluteau , Catherine Wilkening and Johanne - Marie Tremblay . The film tells the story of a group of actors in ___MASK95___ who perform a Passion play in a Quebec church , combining religious belief with unconventional theories on a historical Jesus . As the church turns against the main actor and author of the play , his life increasingly mirrors the story of Jesus , and the film adapts numerous stories from the New Testament . ___MASK23___ Carmina Coppola (; born May 14 , 1971 ) is an American screenwriter , director , producer and actress . In 2003 , she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy - drama " Lost in Translation ", and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director . In 2010 , with the drama " Somewhere ", she became the first American woman ( and fourth American filmmaker ) to win the Golden Lion , the top prize at the Venice Film Festival . Her father is director , producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola . Georges - Henri Denys Arcand , ( born June ___MASK81___ , 1941 ) is a French Canadian film director , screenwriter and producer . He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for " The Barbarian Invasions ". He has also been nominated three further times , including two nominations in the same category for " The Decline of the American Empire " in 1986 and " Jesus of ___MASK95___ " in 1989 , becoming the only French - Canadian director in history to receive this number of nominations and , subsequently , to win the award . Also for " The Barbarian Invasions ", he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay , losing to Sofia Coppola for " Lost in Translation ". The Barbarian Invasions is a 2003 Canadian - French sex comedy - drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard , Stéphane Rousseau and Marie - Josée Croze . The film is a sequel to Arcand ' s 1986 film " The Decline of the American Empire ", continuing the story of the character Rémy , a womanizing history professor now terminally ill with cancer . It was a result of Arcand ' s longtime desire to make a film about a character close to death , also incorporating a response to the September ___MASK6___ attacks of 2001 . The Decline of the American Empire ( French : Le Déclin de l ' empire américain ) is a 1986 Canadian comedy - drama film directed by Denys Arcand . It was followed by two sequels , The Barbarian Invasions in 2003 and Days of Darkness in 2007 .