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After twelve alien vessels appear across the world, linguist Louise Banks joins physicist Ian Donnelly at a military site in Montana. They enter the hovering craft to develop a shared vocabulary with two beings whose written language challenges human assumptions about communication.

Villeneuve converges form and subject through Bradford Young's fogged cinematography, vertical space, Jóhann Jóhannsson's vocal textures and sound design, circular logograms, and incremental translation that make communication physical, while Amy Adams grounds the design in listening, memory, and openness before certainty.