Tagged: Forest Whitaker

Having once referred to Québécois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve as an excellent craftsman “capable of finding thrills, beauty and sometimes even profundity in ham-fisted sentiment and overbearing nihilism”—his previous features Incendies, Prisoners and Sicario having all in some way or another eventually collapsed under weak material or contradictory style– it wasn’t until the existential, high-concept web weaved in Enemy that he found the modicum of nuance (though, admittedly, still of the aggressively self-serious and masculine variety) that was sorely missing from his work. It brings me great pleasure to say that his latest, Arrival, is a refreshing return to high-concept existentialism Read more →