Whaw! Science fiction, brainy and emotional.

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2017)

I'll be looking forward for any other Denis Villeneuve film. He pulled through a "smart Sci Fi" film, as smart IMDb reviewer "A_Different_Drummer (North America)" put down recently here.
I love the music! Max Richter's Blue Notebook will be another of those names on my radar now. He's been scored on films by Scorsesse, French auteur Anne Fontaine Les Innocentes, Stranger than Fiction, in Disconnect, and of course in Arrival.
As another friendly reviewer, this times on Amazon, aptly writes: "if you are prone to melancholia it will definitely ping at your emotions".
Photography and music work together to make it a haunting masterpiece.
It does have some funny moments, emotions are there, specially in the end, there is a lot to think and mull over afterwards. Did I mention Amy Adams is perfect?
As a linguistics teacher friend of mine said: it's the only mainstream film you'll ever see with a linguist being the lead character. She does speak fluent Chinese, of course.
Watch this movie.