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Maelström

Director

Denis Villeneuve

Synopsis

A talking fish who possesses the wisdom of the ages narrates the story of Bibiane Champagne, a young woman whose life is thrown into turmoil after she hits a Norwegian immigrant with her car and leaves him on the road. The injured man manages to make it home, where he dies. Overwhelmed by guilt, Bibiane struggles to forget what she has done and find a way to go on. Then the fates give her a second chance when she meets the man who will change the course of her life.

Cast

Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern, Pierre Lebeau, Kliment Denchev, John Dunn-Hill

Crew

Writer: Denis Villeneuve; Composer: Pierre Desrochers; Cinematographer: André Turpin; Editor: Richard Comeau

Festivals

TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival, Montréal World Film Festival, Valladolid International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival

Director's Filmography

- Dune, 2021

- Blade Runner 2049, 2017

- Arrival, 2016

- Sicario, 2015

- Enemy, 2013

- Prisoners, 2013

- Etude empirique sur l'influence du son sur la persistance rétinienne, short, 2011

- Rated R for Nudity, short, 2011

- Incendies, 2010

- Polytechnique, 2009

- Next Floor, short, 2008

- Happiness Bound, 2007

- 120 Seconds to Get Elected, short, 2006

- Maelström, 2000

August 32nd on Earth, 1998

- Cosmos, Segment: The Technetium, 1996

- REW FFWD, short, 1994

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