Film: "Arrival"
At once epic and intimate, this science-fiction thriller stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker.
When 12 gigantic spaceships simultaneously touch down around the world, the Army brings world-class linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) to the wilds of Montana for the assignment of a lifetime. Banks and her elite team (Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner) race to find a way to communicate with the “visitors,” whose arrival has unleashed dread and anxiety across the globe.
Like Denis Villeneuve’s recent films Sicario and Prisoners, this movie is at once evocative and mysterious. And like Memento, it concerns itself with questions of time, memory and human choice. This is precisely the kind of science-fiction movie, at once epic and intimate, that Interstellar tried (and failed) to be. While the entire cast is strong, Arrival is Adams’ from start to finish—her performance is astonishing. Ambitious in conception and extraordinary in execution, this Telluride at Dartmouth favorite is not to be missed. D: Denis Villeneuve, US, 2016, 116m
Director Denis Villeneuve narrates a scene
