Presentation of a taxonomy for analyzing objects in films and application to the work of Canadian filmmaker, Denys Arcand, aiming to identify and analyze how the most representative daily objects are used in films. The following three films are analyzed for the purposes of this paper: Le déclin de l’empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire, 1986), Les invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions, 2003) and L’âge des ténèbres (Days of Darkness, 2007).