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Denys Arcand final film in the trilogy which delves into the dream worlds of Jean-Marc. This final installment after the hugely popular Barbarian Invasions comes as a surprise. In this part he imagines himself as a dream lover, a star of the stage and the silver screen and a knight in shining armour. But in real like his life is extremely boring and mundane. He just creates these images of affluence in his head. Some of the conversations of why he chose such a subject is discussed below by him.

The Age of Ignorance “is a sort of a commentary on the kind of life we all need, the life I see people leading around me, the lives of my friends, my life,” Arcand says. “As I studied history many moons ago, I find titles very pompous and funny so instead of calling my film Conversations, I called it The Decline of the American Empire, then The Barbarian Invasions, and now we have the Middle Ages, The Age of Ignorance, and we shouldn’t read more into this than there is.”
The imagery for the movie came to him while he was out driving his car in Montreal one Sunday afternoon: “I saw people dressed up in medieval costumes with plastic swords. They were hitting each other with these swords and I stopped to look at what they were doing. I realized there was a shop that sold medieval costumes and armory and realized there was a magazine that dealt exclusively with people who lived in the Middle Ages. I went to attend a battle that takes place every year and there were 2,500 people with weapons. So this I decided will be part of my film. So, I don’t know really what it means. I am sure it does mean something. I thought this must be symptomatic of something that these people are trying to go back to the Middle Ages. Of course it was just a fiction. It wasn’t a real Middle Ages. It was sort of a fantasy world. It was half medieval and half Lord of the Rings. Look at the success of Lord of the Rings. Millions of people in the world wanted to see Viggo Mortensen on a horse. Why? It is because there is something missing somewhere. I don’t know exactly what but there really is something missing.”

He also mentioned that he hopes his film will have an universal appeal. Diane Kruger who was chosen to play Veronica in the movie was really happy to be a part of this trilogy. She also said even if the director was even nasty to her she would have done without a thought in her head. She believed in his films and grown to love it.

Denys Arcand himself had won numerous awards for his work like for instance the Oscar for his work Barbarian Invasions. He also made one of the greatest Canadian films of all time Jesus of Montreal.