Question: Are director of film A Lizard In A Woman'S Skin and director of film Days Of Darkness (2007 Canadian Film) from the same country?

Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> His film "The Barbarian Invasions" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have 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 Montreal" in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film 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". During his four decades career, he became the most globally recognized director from Quebec, winning many awards from the Cannes Film Festival, including the Best Screenplay Award, the Jury Prize, and many other prestigious awards worldwide. He won three César Awards in 2004 for "The Barbarian Invasions": Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film, being the only Canadian director to have accomplished this. Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (born June 25, 1941) is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. Arcand has directed three Canadian films that have received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film and three films in the Toronto International Film Festival's 2004 list of the top 10 Canadian films of all time. <SEP> Stardom is a 2000 Canadian comedy- drama film directed by Denys Arcand and written by J.Jacob Potashnik and Arcand. It stars Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered by a fashion agency. The film was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Arcand cited his later film" Days of Darkness"( 2007) as similar to" Stardom", though" Days of Darkness" was ostensibly a sequel to his other films" The Decline of the American Empire"( 1986) and" The Barbarian Invasions"( 2003). <SEP> Days of Darkness, also known as The Age of Ignorance, is a 2007 French Canadian sex comedy- drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger and Sylvie Léonard. Presented as the third part of Arcand's loose trilogy also consisting of" The Decline of the American Empire"( 1986) and" The Barbarian Invasions"( 2003), it was followed by a fourth film with similar themes," The Fall of the American Empire"( 2018). The film follows a depressed Quebec bureaucrat, who feeling insignificant, retreats into a fantasy world. The film was screened out of competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It was nominated for four Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. <SEP> Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including comedy, spaghetti western, adventure, science fiction and erotica, he garnered an international cult following for his giallo and horror films. His most notable films include the" Gates of Hell" trilogy —" City of the Living Dead"( 1980)," The Beyond"( 1981), and" The House by the Cemetery"( 1981) —as well as" Massacre Time"( 1966)," One on Top of the Other"( 1969)," A Lizard in a Woman's Skin"( 1971)," Do n't Torture a Duckling"( 1972)," White Fang"( 1973)," Four of the Apocalypse"( 1975)," Sette note in nero"( 1977)," Zombi 2"( 1979)," Contraband"( 1980)," The Black Cat"( 1981)," The New York Ripper"( 1982)," Murder Rock"( 1984), and" A Cat in the Brain"( 1990). Lucio Fulci( 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. Because of the high level of visceral graphic violence present in many of his films, especially" Zombi 2" and" The Beyond", Fulci is frequently referred to as" The Godfather of Gore", a title also given to Herschell Gordon Lewis. Fulci was in his young adult years a politically active radical for the Italian Communist Party. <SEP> A Lizard in a Woman's Skin( Italian:" Una lucertola con la pelle di donna") is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film was released in France as" Carole", and was later re-released in the US as" Schizoid"( hardcore version, the same as the French version" Les Salopes vont en Enfer", released in 1976). Set in London, the film follows Carol Hammond( Florinda Bolkan), the daughter of a respected politician, who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares consisting of depraved sex orgies and LSD use. In the dream, she commits a graphic murder and awakes to a real- life criminal investigation into the murder of her neighbour.