Maelström is a 2000 Canadian film by Québécois writer-director Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed, alcoholic woman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she believes to have killed in a hit and run accident.
The film has won 23 awards, including 5 Genie Awards and the FIPRESCI Prize, and was nominated for 8 more awards.
The story is told by a fish (with the voice of Pierre Lebeau). In Quebec during the autumn of 1999, twenty-five-year-old Bibiane Champagne (Marie-Josée Croze), head of three clothing boutiques, is being crushed by the expectations put on her for being the daughter of a celebrity, Flo Fabert. She resorts to drugs and alcohol in an effort to cope, while trying in vain to keep her problems from for example her colleague brother Philippe (Bobby Beshro) and a persistent magazine reporter (Marie-France Lambert). The early scenes of the film show her friends supporting her through her first abortion and her inability to function in her job.
When it returns from the darkness our world lies in threat.
For the last time the world shall stand.
In the end shall lay broken.
"The final terrible battle shall begin."
Thus everything dies, but only mortals die forever.
The others watch and wait eternally in the shadows.
The black sword of vengeance shall strike.
"Thus spake the one who sat in judgement.
For he foretold the ruin of the world."
His words were whispered among us all...
When the world is old and powers fade,
The sun and the moon shall be destroyed.
Surrender your sun to me.
Thus everything dies in the diminishing light.