A winner at both Berlin and Toronto International Film Festivals, this French-Canadian drama from filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049) centres...
A winner at both Berlin and Toronto International Film Festivals, this French-Canadian drama from filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049) centres on an unhappy young woman in the fashion industry who accidentally runs over a jaywalker one night. Uncertain of the man's fate, the events that follow force her to come to terms with her life.
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79 %38 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
76 %2,268 reviewsAudience score rating
"Visually 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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TV Guide
TV Guide"Maelström earns its haunting, unpredictable ending, never exaggerating Evian’s moral dilemma. Still, without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a Kieślowski morality tale, Maelström is just another Winter Sleepers."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"A piquant contemporary fable that mixes elements whimsical, macabre and romantic to determinedly offbeat effect. Whether there's much substance beneath all the surface eccentricity may be the largest among many puzzles here. Nonetheless, "Maelstrom" is always texturally striking and tonally intriguing."
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Variety
VarietyMaelström | Details
- Runtime
- 87
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Canada
