This phenomenal film was the highlight of the festival for me and I can't wait to see it again! It's in a category of its own, the documentary-as-pure-art-object category, and I was appropriately ravished and amazed by its deep sensuality, both visual and aural. No special effects, only unusual perspectives and powerful lighting, the footage is raw, direct, and dazzlingly poetic all at once, a wordless vision of reality as dream or nightmare, depending on how you feel about waves, blood, fish, flight, nets, chains, winches, and men wielding steel hooks and sabers in the middle of the night.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
SFIFF 56: Leviathan
This phenomenal film was the highlight of the festival for me and I can't wait to see it again! It's in a category of its own, the documentary-as-pure-art-object category, and I was appropriately ravished and amazed by its deep sensuality, both visual and aural. No special effects, only unusual perspectives and powerful lighting, the footage is raw, direct, and dazzlingly poetic all at once, a wordless vision of reality as dream or nightmare, depending on how you feel about waves, blood, fish, flight, nets, chains, winches, and men wielding steel hooks and sabers in the middle of the night.
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