Maelstrom
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Marie-Josée Croze
- Summary: Set in Montreal and narrated by a blood-smeared, dying fish, this is the surreal story of a young woman who accidentally kills a fish butcher and the anguish that follows.
- Director: Denis Villeneuve
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 12 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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90A splendid instance of a surrealist vision that serves to heighten the impact of genuine emotions experienced by believably real people.
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80Dark, wickedly funny tale.
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60Visually striking and viscerally repellent, director Denis Villeneuve's Quebecois oddity offers a nightmarish vision of one woman's unraveling, the likes of which haven't been seen since Roman Polanski pushed Catherine Deneuve off the deep end in "Repulsion" (1965).
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20Wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically, and borrows heavily from Lynch, Jeunet, and von Trier while failing to find a spark of its own.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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