No context, just the present! 5 personages, 3 languages: how to understand each other, in time of peace and during conflicts.
Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa, Grégoire Colin, Jun Murakam
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writers: Kyôko Inukai (screenplay), Naomi Kawase (screenplay)
Cinematography by Caroline Champetier
Film Editing by Dominique Auvray, Yûsuke Kaneko, Naomi Kawase
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Eric Heisserer (screenplay), Ted Chiang (based on the story “Story of Your Life” written by)
Actors: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
“The center of the film remains our transmutation of sympathy for a grieving mother into sympathy for a woman who knows she will be grieving for a child yet unborn, and yet embraces her destiny.”
[When is Now? By David Bordwell in Observations on film art, Wednesday | November 23, 2016. http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/11/23/arrival-when-is-now/]