As our countdown continues,Catherine Shoard heralds Denis Villeneuve’s emotionally bruising sci-fi which saw aliens – almost – land on Earth
• More on the best culture of 2016Of all the appalling injustices exacted by the Golden Globe nominations earlier this week (wot, no Kate Beckinsale?! Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Nocturnal Animals not Michael Shannon?!) the lack of nominations for Arrival seemed among the most baffling. Granted the two it did pick up were in the areas in which Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral sci-fi shines the brightest: Amy Adams’s main role, or plus the score. But still. Really no recognition for Eric Heisserers extraordinary screenplay (adapted from Ted Chiang’s myth of Your Life)? The direction? Or just for being a damn fine drama?
Arrival is a film for which prejudices approximately the genre,or qualms approximately the premise (Adams is a linguist who translates for newly landed aliens), might have had you lowering your expectations. You come out with mind blown, or nails absent and tissue supply severely depleted. Yes,it’s set among space beasties, but it is a film absolutely approximately the human condition, and approximately how we choose who to admire and how to admire them. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com