After an hour it can feel like a chore. Yet the images are staggering - not least as the camera moves in and out of the ocean.
Leviathan
2012 · 1h 27m · NOT RATED
Documentary
Directed by
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
,
Véréna Paravel
Overview
Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
With its repetitive images of netted and gutted sea life, the film suggests that the beast is the human hunter himself.
Radical experiential/experimental video of bloody viscera and abstract beauty. Embedded/embodied lens as in Brakhage's "The Governor" and Geyrhalter's "Our Daily Bread."
More an accumulation of often indefinable images than any kind of even remotely traditional feature, the documentary "Leviathan" proves a strange and unsatisfying endurance test.
Gradually you realize you're witnessing a nonlinear entertainment that's setting its own rules, and you'll either go with the flow or take an early leave.
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