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Denis Villeneuve (born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide. Villeneuve began his career in his home country, directing four French-language dramas: August 32nd on Earth (1998); Maelström (2000); Polytechnique (2009), a dramatisation of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre; and Incendies (2010). The last of these gained him international prominence and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He expanded to English-language films by directing the thrillers Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), and Sicario (2015). Villeneuve gained wider recognition for directing science fiction films. His work on Arrival (2016) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. This was followed by Blade Runner 2049 (2017), which was critically lauded but financially unsuccessful. His next projects were Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. Both films were critically and commercially successful, with the former earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
When Elena, a reclusive photo archivist, inherits an ornate mirror from her estranged mother's estate, she begins to see a different version of herself in its reflection each morning. At first, the reflections are subtle distortions — older, younger, bruised, beaming — but soon they begin to speak, offering cryptic warnings, forgotten memories, and intimate truths she’s never told anyone. As the mirror’s presence grows more invasive, Elena finds her own identity unraveling, her memories shifting, and time bending around her. Desperate to understand what's real, Elena turns to therapy, only to discover even her therapist's reflection speaks in riddles she can’t explain. When one reflection refuses to leave — a version of Elena who claims to have made all the right choices — the line between mirror and reality dissolves. With her sense of self fracturing, Elena must confront a terrifying truth: she may not be the original, and the one who is wants her life back.
