| Leviathan |
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Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia 2014 WINNER : PALME D'OR AT 2014 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL SHORT-LISTED : BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM AT 2015 OSCARS |
| Summary: |
| A Russian fisherman fights back when a corrupt mayor tries to seize possession of his ancestral home. The house and land have been in his family for years; he lives there with his wife and son, and doesn’t intend to leave. He summons an old friend from Moscow, now a lawyer, to help him fight the case. But corruption is a way of life in the community, and even the clever attorney has trouble outfoxing the unscrupulous mayor and his loyal bureaucracy. Winner of Palme D'Or Cannes 2014. |
| What the Critics say: |
| "The great trial of Job is reborn in this magnificent Russian movie, compelling in its moral seriousness, with a severity and force that escalate into a terrible, annihilating sort of grandeur. Zvyagintsev combines an Old Testament fable with something like Tarkovsky’s 'The Sacrifice'." (Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian) |