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Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel
To describe this film as “a documentary about commercial fishing” hardly seems adequate, even with a vague qualifier like “avant-garde” ineffectually appended. This heaving, churning epic defies pat classification. In this case it’s only reasonable to invoke a critical cliche: you have to see it for yourself.
Calum Marsh
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