But Now I’m Not So Sure I Believe In Beginnings And Endings. There Are Days That Define Your Story

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By Edgar Ascensão

SUBLIME CINEMA #301 - ARRIVAL

Denis Villeneuve is one of the most interesting new gen filmmakers to come along for a while, along with the Safdie Brothers, Celine Sciamma, Chloe Zhao, and a select few others. There is not a windfall of new young talent with their own particular artistic signatures, but Villeneuve has specialized in epic, stark landscapes, and vast worlds of a dark unknown for over a decade. He now commands bigger budgets than his contemporaries could dream of. His earliest short ‘The Next Floor’, looked inspired by Roy Andersson, but then he pared down the elements to some kind of pure essential starkness which seems distinctly his. Mixed results ensued - Incendies, Sicario, Prisoners and Arrival approach masterpiece material, and show an artist in command of his talent. Blade Runner 2049 was haphazard, Polytechnique polarizing. But he’s an artist I will go out of my way to watch. 

Arrival is a great science fiction film, thought provoking, hauntingly beautiful. and Villeneuve’s last collaboration with sublime composer Johann Johansson before he passed away tragically, way too young. 

Arrival (2016) [1400 x 2100]

Despite knowing the journey… and where it leads… I embrace it… and I welcome every moment of it.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

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