ldquo;I came up with the title and everybody said, that's ridiculous, and it worked perfectly rdquo;
After a 12-day lineup of weighty films, the Cannes Film Festival came to a close Sunday with a movie called 'Days of Darkness' _ despite its title, a comedy. French-Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand, who won best foreign language Oscar in 2004 for his funny, moving, 'The Barbarian Invasions,' has a thing for over-the-top titles.
'They're big titles, and the films are small films,' he joked in an interview with The Associated Press.
'It started when I did 'The Decline of the American Empire.' I did this film which was basically about sex, about couples cheating on one another and stuff like that, and we didn't know what to call it ..
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