Sentences with phrase «drama leviathan»

This year, Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Elena) returned to Cannes with his drama Leviathan, the story that is described as a gripping parable of class, faith and corruption, centering on a land dispute between a small - time mechanic and his local authorities that reaps unimaginable consequences.

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Even with the presence of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last year, thanks to widely praised films like Mr. Turner (the year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best - reviewed foreign - language film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.
Critics liked every film the 45 - year - old company had to offer in 2013, especially one - of - a-kind documentary Leviathan and the Vienna - set drama Museum Hours.
Leviathan (R for profanity, sexuality and nudity) Legal drama about a humble family man (Aleksey Serebryakov) who retains the services of an attorney (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) to prevent his seaside home with a view from being seized for a pittance through eminent domain by a corrupt mayor (Roman Madyanov).
Loveless A story about a broken marriage and a missing child becomes a withering snapshot of Russian social malaise in this bleak and beautifully shot drama from the gifted Andrey Zvyagintsev («Leviathan»).
The Russian Oscar committee could actually choose «Leviathan» director Andrey Zvyagintsev's Cannes hit «Loveless» (Sony Pictures Classics) for its official submission, although Telluride also played its lower - profile rival, the dark family drama «Tesnota.»
A warring couple reunite to find their missing son in this blunt drama from Leviathan director Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev follows up Leviathan with a bleak but captivating social drama.
(His cinematographer is Mikhail Krichman, who also shot «Leviathan» and the director's underrated 2007 drama, «The Banishment.»)
Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev's («Leviathan») Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating...
These were Achievement in Directing, bestowed upon Andrey Zvyagintsev (an APSA favourite, with wins under his belt Leviathan and Elena) for his missing child drama, Loveless; the Cinematography honour, awarded to the duo Pyotr Duhovskoy and Timofey Lobov for Rustam Khamdamov's monochromatic dreamscape The Bottomless Bag; and, a second Jury Grand Prize for actor Aleksandr Yatsenko's performance in Boris Khlebnikov's Arrhythmia.
Ahead of its UK release this coming February, Altitude has unveiled a trailer for director Andrey Zvyagintsev's (Leviathan, The Return) acclaimed drama Loveless, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes earlier this year and was also named Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival.
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