What's the first clue that the Genie Award-gobbling Quebec film Maelstrom is perhaps not meant to be taken perfectly literally? Well, there's the talking fish ...

Yep, the blubbery-lipped succession of scaly sea life that narrate this tale of fate, chance and redemption is a definite tipoff that we should just believe in the powers of cosmic chaos and not think too hard about the improbability of it all.
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You know you're not watching a 'normal' movie when you meet the narrator of Montreal filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's Maelstroem and he is a talking fish.

The poor fellow, an existentialist with a sonorous voice (provided by Pierre Lebeau) and the wisdom of the ages, is flopped out on a fish monger's bloody table. He is about to be decapitated, cleaned and filleted.
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