Adapting Ted Chiang’s stunning novella Story of Your Life into full-blooded cinematic escapism, Villeneuve places Amy Adams at the centre of Earth’s first extraterrestrial contact.
She plays expert linguist Louise Banks, recruited by an elite team to investigate the eerie spacecraft which have suddenly descended across the globe.
Adams here stars alongside the likes of Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker.
Arrival has now officially made its debut at the Venice Film Festival; with strong reviews pouring in from all sides, the Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi is quickly escalating the ranks of major awards contenders.