Cannes: Anti-Putin Movie To Win?
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s fourth feature, “Leviathan,” is a thriller, a black social comedy, and a thinly-veiled swipe at Putin’s regime in one tidy package. It is a serious contender for Cannes’ top prize, to be given this weekend. THR says: ‘Simultaneously a modern essay on suffering, an open-ended thriller, and a black social comedy, it is most importantly of all a thinly-veiled political parable drenched in bitter irony that takes aim against the corrupt, corrosive regime of Vladimir Putin. The wacky punchline is that it was made with financial support from the Russian Ministry of Culture.’ Gogol would be proud.
