Leviathan

2013
6.5| 1h27m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 01 March 2013 Released
Producted By: Cinereach
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://www.leviathanfilm.org
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An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast of New England.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!
Micitype Pretty Good
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Anna Rob Last year, if I'd been forced to watch an 87 minutes-long experimental documentary on the North-Atlantic commerical fishing industry, in which not a single word is spoken, I'd probably have rather poked my eyes out. Luckily, I've opted to grow a pair and face the poorly-lit, disembodied camera viewpoints that seem to dominate certain experimental films, head-on. Leviathan (2012) is one of those difficult to watch films that you could never really finish unless you watched it on a big screen or had an insane amount of discipline not to periodically check Facebook. The imagery of the film comes from tiny waterproof cameras that are placed in various locations or attached to moving objects and people, capturing the sights and sounds of the commercial fishing world. Thirty percent of the film is visually stunning and the rest is a blurry, dark mess with the occasional glowing alienesque halo hovering over severed fish heads or tangled nets. One quote I came across hilariously offered the title of David Lynch, Gone Fishin' as an alternative title to the film. Other memorable shots feature a viewpoint of hopping under and above water, each time surfacing to an incredible flock of seagulls hovering just about the surface of the water. And although there is no scripted dialogue or voice-over narrative, the men who work the fishing boats are shown in all their raw honesty below the decks cleaning shells, above deck chopping rays or in the lounges watching TV on break. Leviathan covers a lot of startling images but the greatest mystery of the film is what kind of message the filmmakers were trying to make with this work, in that there really isn't a singular stance they're taking. Leviathan is categorized as a documentary, though it doesn't really seem to constitute one without any kind of information supplementary to the images. "Experimental Ethnographic film" might be a more appropriate term. Whatever the right wording is, I came away from this screening with a real respect for what the filmmakers (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel) had accomplished. I can't say for certain that I can land on any kind of opinion regarding the subject of the film, but I know that I was deeply affected by certain images (especially one in which two fishermen systemically hack the wings off of Rays). Leviathan isn't in any way trustworthy or certain, but it's not a film I'll soon forget.
Strazdamonas This movie had nothing going for it. There was no story, no acting and no documentary to boot. This movie consisted mainly of single thing: sticking "goPro" cameras on people and watching other people work repetitive tasks. The moment camera sank i was hoping the movie would actually end with that escape from this dreadful piece of motion pictures (calling it cinema is a disgrace to word cinema). There was no camera-work of editing to speak off, no sound editing either, most dialogue is unintelligible and there is little of it to begin with. The movie consists either of nausea inducing swimming camera footage or watching people work repetitive tasks that is supposed to be "Shocking" but ends up being more of a bore than anything. The fact that this movie has achieved anything only proves just how pointless movie awards have became, where people will give you awards just for making something they cant understand. And don't get me wrong, no one can understand this movie, for there is no sense behind it.
stone221 First I have to say this is my first review ever for anything. I was so gutted having wasted my precious time that I felt compelled to warn others away from this movie. Simply awful. Set up some GoPro camera's, edit the footage and bob's your uncle. However Bob turned out to be the most boring uncle in existence. I kept waiting for something in this movie to make sense. Quote-"Leviathan is definitely experimental (though experiential may be a better descriptor for it. It offers no narration, no facts or figures, no conclusion or agenda. The only dialogue we hear is, for the most part, distorted to the point of abstraction."-Taken from a positive review of this movie.(wow) Can't even make out whats happening most of the time. I find that this is LAZY film making at it's worst.
michele fiorentino Well my review is partial because I could not stand watching it all even in fast forward. Sorry for the author and staff, I can grasp the artistic reality of the shots (maybe hidden??) but the "documentaristic" does'nt mean for me that i have to be standing in front of a black screen looking for the camera to point somewhere interesting. To make it worst I love the sea and sea creatures and maybe the message is for everybody and for everyday when eating fish you must think to the "wild hunt behind". I suggest sea lover to go for the perfect storm or discovery channel hi sea fishing documentary. They do the same message and give an idea of this hard work, the most dangerous in the world!