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 CANNES, France (AP) - 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 ...
"I came up with the title and everybody said, that's ridiculous, and it worked perfectly," he said.
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