Denis Villeneuve

He was born on October 30, 1967 in Quebec City, Canada. Although he started studying science at university, Denis Villeneuve would soon realize what he really wanted: writing and directing behind the camera. He majored in film at the University of Quebec in Montreal and soon got down to business with a television show known as Le course destination monde . The 1990s, his first in the industry, were quiet until in 1998 when he premiered his debut feature: Un 32 août sur terre. A drama about friendship, the events that change your life and the perception of it. The film fought to enter the Oscars representing Canada but finally fell to the brink. Just two years later he presented another drama about a young woman’s depression:Maelstrom. It was a recognized feature film that won five Genie Awards and competed at the Berlin Film Festival.

Already entered the 21st century, Villeneuve premiered his four most famous films. Polytechnique is the adaptation, according to the testimony of some survivors, of the massacre that occurred at the Polytechnic School of Montreal. Again, it won the Genie Award for Best Canadian Film. But the real bombshell for Denis Villeneuve came in 2010 with the premiere of the heartbreaking and overwhelming Incendies ., a harsh and violent story that shows the decline of the human being, religious problems and family love. The film is endowed with an exceptional setting, as well as performances and sequences that take your breath away. It is the journey of two children who try to fulfill the last wishes of their mother, a strange, silent and distant woman. He fought to win the Oscar in the foreign film category, although he did not succeed.

In 2013 he presented his last two productions to date. Prisoners is her first American feature film. It featured Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal , who provide performances to match the film. It is a thriller about kidnappings with a very well-crafted script that, despite its long duration, does not get heavy, as well as a tense and gloomy atmosphere that lasts until the final credits. In Enemy she again had Jake Gyllenhaal. It is the adaptation of “The duplicate man”, a novel by the Nobel Prize for Literature José Saramago . It’s a complex feature film about two exactly alike men who meet.

What no one doubts is that the narrative force of this Canadian director is there, it is palpable. His rise has been meteoric in recent years and each new job generates anticipation. Without going any further, his next projects are of a high economic level. Sicario , a thriller about drug trafficking that will be released in December 2015 in Spain; the sequel to one of the icons of science fiction: Blade Runner ; and The Story of Your Life , another futuristic project that will have the alien invasion of Earth as its main plot.