Days of Darkness

It is a well-worn adage in cinema that the third film in a series is often the one that breaks it. This curse of the trilogy, familiar from blockbuster franchises, proves equally applicable to more rarefied arthouse fare, as demonstrated by celebrated Canadian auteur Denys Arcand’s concluding chapter to his loosely connected thematic triptych. Three decades after the incisive, talkative *The Decline of the American…