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  • If you have been following this channel for a while, you would know that I am a big fan

  • of Denis Villeneuve and today I am going to talk about his Top 5 Films.

  • This is a personal list based on my own opinions.

  • I know it is obvious, but then again, this is the Internet.

  • So, Denis Villeneuve for those of you who don’t know is a French Canadian filmmaker.

  • Many people, I’ve even met some of them personally, think that the crime thriller

  • Prisoners is his first film.

  • But Denis Villeneuve is in the film industry from 1998.

  • Before his Hollywood journey, he made several critically acclaimed French Canadian films

  • like August 32nd on Earth, Maelström, Polytechnique, Incendies etc.

  • If you haven’t watched these movies and if you are fan of this filmmaker, I can’t

  • recommend these films enough.

  • Now, without wasting anymore time, let’s get into it.

  • No. 5

  • Sicario

  • Sicario is a 2015 crime drama film that talks about the ugly war against drugs, specifically

  • at the border area between the US and Mexico.

  • I was really impressed with the casting of this movie.

  • I had my doubts about Emily Blunt, she never seemed like an actress who had that intensity,

  • which a script like this requires.

  • But I am so happy that I was proved wrong.

  • But I have to say that Sicario is one of Denis Villeneuve’s weaker movies, but the one

  • main reason that this movie is in this list is because of the traffic confrontation scene.

  • The set up and delivery of that scene was so perfectly done, that the rest of the movie

  • couldn’t live up to the expectation set by that scene.

  • If you want to see that scene analyzed in an in depth manner, click the link above to

  • watch the video that was done by the CineFix channel.

  • No 4

  • Polytechnique

  • On December 6, 1989 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, a massacre happened

  • 25-year-old Marc Lepin shot 28 people and murdered 14 women.

  • He blamed it on the rise of feminism.

  • It was a national tragedy and this film dramatizes the events around the massacre.

  • It is a heavy film for sure, especially knowing the tragic outcome; it makes for a brutal watch

  • The event and the consequences were shown from the perspective of three people including

  • that of the killers’.

  • You can really see how Denis Villeneuve’s movies have strong female characters, even

  • in the initial stage of his career.

  • No3

  • Arrival

  • A lot has been said about this movie recently, analyzing everything from the Alienslanguage

  • and the short story it is based on.

  • Even I did a video essay on Language and the next step in human evolution.

  • You can check that out in the card above.

  • It takes a complex concept such as the nature of time and reality and makes it accessible

  • to someone even without any scientific background and that’s what a strong screenplay does

  • effectively.

  • This is yet another one of his movie with a strong female character.

  • No2

  • Prisoners

  • I had a hard time with choosing the No 1 and No 2 spots in this list

  • It is a slow burn thriller about the abduction of two little girls and the subsequent search

  • by the family and the detective in a small town.

  • An incredibly detailed script powered by strong performances by the entire cast, and an equally

  • stunning cinematography made watching this film, almost like a meditation.

  • No1 The best Denis Villeneuve film so far, is

  • Enemy.

  • Enemy is a 2013 Canadian psychological thriller film.

  • It is loosely adapted from the Portuguese writer JoseSaramago’s novel The Double

  • and for the record, The Double is my favorite book of all time.

  • So, imagine my surprise when this film managed to completely stand on its own and not ruin

  • the book in any way.

  • It actually speaks volumes about the filmmaker.

  • Enemy is a film about identity, duality, totalitarianism and human relationships.

  • This is a film, which doesn’t reveal itself so easily.

  • It is like a puzzle, but with all the pieces in it for you to piece it together and inside

  • there lays a great story.

  • If you watched the enemy and you still feel like you have no idea what happened in the film

  • then watch the video that Chris Stuckman did, it’s in the card above.

  • He did a great and in-depth analysis with strong supporting arguments and I think he

  • nailed it.

  • I love this movie and I have a lot of respect for it as it assumes that its audience is

  • brilliant.

  • You don’t get this kind of movie often in the world where Michael Bay keeps hitting

  • us in the head with his Transformer series.

  • I feel like there are three kinds of filmmakers when it comes to American cinema.

  • Ones that are really good indie filmmakers, but when they make the transition to studio

  • films, they don’t handle the pressure so well and they fade away.

  • There are filmmakers who are made for studio films, but then they can’t make an intimate

  • small film.

  • But then there are filmmakers who make intimate indie films and brilliant studio films.

  • Like Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg and very few others.

  • In that list, we definitely have Denis Villeneuve and I am really looking forward to his upcoming

  • projects.

  • I am excited about Blade Runner 2049 and his upcoming crime thrillerThe Sonwith

  • Jake Gyllenhall, a move adaptation of a Norwegian crime novel.

  • That’s it for this week’s video.

  • What is your favorite Denis Villeneuve film?

  • If you haven’t watched enough of his movies, then who is your favorite American director

  • that’s working today?

  • Leave the answers in the comments below.

  • I am also attaching two playlists here.

  • All things cinemawhich has all the videos that I did so far that’s related

  • to movies andJournal of Thingsan ongoing web series on fascinating topics.

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5部最好的丹尼斯-維倫紐夫電影 (Top 5 Best Denis Villeneuve Films)

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