Film
Leviathan
- Director
- Andrei Zvagintsev
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 141 mins
Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russian director of The Return and The Banishment, conjures up a drama centred on a dispute between a car mechanic and a corrupt mayor in the remote northwest. The Hollywood Reporter described this admiringly as “a thriller, a black social comedy, and a thinly veiled swipe at Putin’s regime in one tidy package.” Leviathan won the Best Screenplay award and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Oscar in the same category.
It’s back on screen in the ‘shed’s January Andrei Zvyagintsev Sunday brunch season, screened as an appetiser for his new one, Loveless, which opens in February.
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