Maelström (2000)
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
A young woman's life spirals into chaos after she is involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then she encounters a mysterious man named Evian who offers her an opportunity for redemption. Narrated by a fish.
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What critics compared Maelström to
At times pointedly sombre, and at other moments dizzyingly surreal, Arrival is shot with both a compassionate and calculating eye, something that’s become Villenueve’s stock in trade ever since his early days helming dark Québécois dramas (Maelstrom, Polytechnique, Incendies).
Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve specialises in intense, often confronting dramas with ominous one-word titles (Maelström, Polytechnique, Incendies, Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario), and while he’s occasionally dabbled in the fantastic previously, this latest effort is his first (ugh!) ‘Genre Movie’.
When filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique, Maelstrom) first saw Wajdi Mouawad's play Incendies (titled Scorched in English-language productions), he says he had "the same impression as when I first saw Apocalypse Now – astonished."