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All 11 Denis Villeneuve Movies, Ranked
Where does Dune: Part Two fall in the director’s filmography?
Villeneuve returned two years later with Maelström, in which Marie-Josée Croze plays Bibiane, a struggling Montreal businesswoman who falls in love with a Norwegian Canadian diver named Evian (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) after killing his father in a hit-and-run accident, a story memorably recounted by the aforementioned fish (voiced by Pierre Lebeau). Incendies ’ bloody moments arrive with shocking suddenness but also feel like the inevitable results of larger political forces and multigenerational cycles of violence, themes that would recur in Dune, Sicario, and, most immediately, the Hollywood debut that would follow a few years later. Villeneuve made the leap from Canada to Hollywood with this uncompromising thriller starring Hugh Jackman, Viola Davis, Terrence Howard, and Maria Bello as, respectively, Keller, Nancy, Franklin, and Grace, the parents of two girls who disappear from their small Pennsylvania town on Thanksgiving.
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