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Maelstrom
Directed by
Denis Villeneuve
R
2001
87m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.7
79%
75%
6.2
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A young woman's life spirals into chaos after she is involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then she encounters a mysterious man named Evian who offers her an opportunity for redemption. Narrated by a fish.
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Cast of Maelstrom
Marie-Josée Croze
Bibiane Champagne
Jean-Nicolas Verreault
Evian
Stephanie Morgenstern
Claire Gunderson
Pierre Lebeau
The Fish (voice)
Kliment Denchev
Head-Annstein Karlsen
John Dunn-Hill
Fishmonger
Bobby Beshro
Philippe Champagne
Marie-France Lambert
Marie-Jeanne Sirois
Luis Oliva
Fishmonger's Employee
Robin Aubert
Gas Station Clerk
Sylvie Moreau
Photographer
Khanh Hua
Vietnamese Restaurant Owner
Virginie Dubois
Sara
Daniel Turcot
Infernal Fishmonger
Darrell Lloyd Tucler
Fishmonger's Employee
Léo Arguello
Fishmonger's Employee
Martin Boucher
Driver
Vuk Stojanovic
Thief
Valentina Blagodatska
Female Thief
Zhenhu Han
Mr. Koumsawout (voice)
Maelstrom Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Strange it is, but delightfully so.
Des Moines Register
Jeffrey Bruner
Most fish stories are a little peculiar, but this is one that should be thrown back in the river.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
Darkly funny and frequently insightful.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
An oddity, to be sure, but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion.
San Francisco Examiner
Joe Leydon
An oddly affecting and often darkly funny drama about the randomness of life and the possibility of redemption.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
An original little film about one young woman's education.
Contra Costa Times
Mary F. Pols
The main story ... is compelling enough, but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish.
Internet Reviews
Steve Rhodes
'Sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
This is a nervy, risky film, and Villeneuve has inspired Croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of Bibi.
New Times
Gregory Weinkauf
Offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere.
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
Maelstrom is strange and compelling, engrossing and different, a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Sensual, funny and, in the end, very touching.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout Maelstrom.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
[Villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
I'll put it this way: If you're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish, this is the movie for you.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
By turns fanciful, grisly and engagingly quixotic.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Not for all tastes. But I, for one, was hooked by this fish's tale.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements.
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Wanders 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.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a Kieslowski morality tale, Maelstrm is just another Winter Sleepers.
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