Synopsis
Why are they here?
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
2016 Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Amy Adams Jeremy Renner Forest Whitaker Michael Stuhlbarg Tzi Ma Mark O'Brien Julia Scarlett Dan Abigail Pniowsky Jadyn Malone Carmela Nozza Guizzo Andrew Shaver Shawn Campbell Larry Day Pat Kiely Frank Schorpion Lucas Chartier-Dessert Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld Sonia Vigneault Mark Camacho Sabrina Reeves Russell Yuen Julian Casey Tony Robinow Anana Rydvald Ruth Chiang Sergiy Marchenko Brittany Teo Chistian Jadah Joe Cobden Show All…
Aaron Ryder Shawn Levy David Linde Stan Wlodkowski Karen Lunder Eric Heisserer Glen Basner Daniel S. Levine Tory Metzger Milan Popelka Dan Cohen
Paul Hotte Simon Guilbault André Valade André Nicholas Malouf Marie-Soleil Dénommé Jean Gagnon Louis Frederic Denomme Jocelyn Charbonneau Luc Houle Luc-Eric Duhamel Marc-Andre Jalbert Marco Lavallée Sébastien Gervais
Thierry Delattre Philippe Theroux Alain Lachance Louis Morin Jean-François Ferland Ivan Moran Kevin R. Browne Catherine Nadeau Mathieu Raynault Sandra Germain Alexandre Lafortune Alexandra Vaillancourt Arnaud Brisebois Louise Bertrand Joseph Kasparian Josiane Fradette Noémie Jacques Sébastien Bergeron Meggie Cabral Nick Guth Amelie Poitras Annie Cliche Benoît Brière Daniel Booty Antonin Messier Turcotte Martin Macrae Dominik Kirouac James Dong Owens Bazile Pier-Luc Verville Pierre Rousseau Josee Chapdelaine Sylvain Lebeau
Olivier Calvert Luc Boudrias Sylvain Bellemare Michelle Child Alan Robert Murray Pierre-Jules Audet Dave Whitehead Mathieu Beaudin Bernard Gariépy Strobl Will Slater Justin Scott Wilson Steve Perski Daniel Capeille
FilmNation Entertainment Lava Bear Films Reliance Entertainment Xenolinguistics 21 Laps Entertainment Paramount
Contact, Story of Your Life, Ha'mifgash, I Afixi, 어라이벌, Premier Contact, A Chegada
memory is a strange thing. for example, i remember amy adams's performance as being one of the best of 2016, but the academy seemed to remember differently
Okay, so now that i've sat down and thought about this, i'm ready to talk.
This movie is 100% a masterpiece. The visuals are perfect, the acting, ESPECIALLY from Amy Adams, is wonderful. The fucking score, Jesus Christ. Everything about this movie is absolutely amazing. The aliens looked terrifying and gorgeous at the same time. I didn't breathe for a good 60 seconds when you first meet them. Still, a movie can fail with an amazing score, breathtaking cinematography, and captivating acting. But it doesn't.
Denis Villeneuve uses the aliens as such a beautiful storytelling device. The way this story is told is heartbreaking and haunting. If you see this movie, you'll know exactly what i'm talking about. It is impossible…
The ghosts of Stanley Kubrick and Michael Crichton have inhabited Denis Villeneuve's body.
still waiting for a heptapod duolingo update ...... need that lil green owl to teach me their language i wanna be besties with those intellectual space octopuses !!!!
In light of recent events, I'm reminded of Fermi's paradox. A cynical and unsettling notion which suggests the reason we've never been contacted by extraterrestrial intelligent life is that the no civilization has survived long enough to innovate to that level. Or, in simpler terms, that the fundamental nature of intelligent life is to ultimately destroy itself. As tech and sciences progress further and further, what matters is how we allocate that technology; what leaders we elect to control it and how we as a populace influence it's purpose. It all becomes a question of what we as a species value. On one end of the spectrum; there's science, progress and compassion. On the other, there's seems to be paranoia,…
more filmmakers should (follow suit and) go full Tarkovsky in wide release form. Villeneuve had already proven himself to be one of the most versatile filmmakers in the medium -- as if we needed any more proof -- and it goes without saying that Bradford Young is a complete colossus with the camera.
why didn't anybody warn me about Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight bookending the film? I can't even listen to that piece (in absence of a heartbreaking cinematic context) without tearing up; imagine what the introductory and concluding sequences herein did to me.
if you could see beyond the boundaries of your vision and comprehend the entire vastness of your environment -- all that is before you, beside you, behind you -- would you still traverse the same trail, or would you tour time through disparate doors?
did somebody literally call for the most beautiful piece of art ever made because arrival picked up the fucking phone and they’re on the line waiting they don’t have all day quick tell them your private phone number and your wife’s dying words