Leviathan, a film by director Andrei Zvyagintsev, is populated by corrupt, drunken, nihilistic Ruskies that reek of herring and live in barren, rocky expanses somewhere near the Arctic. Zvyagintsev presents the struggles of these quasi-Dostoevskian characters in a modern Lily-Putian milieu. There’s something about Russians and drama, a metaphysical depth rarely found elsewhere: Leviathan is a movie propelled by the cold vitality of the Stanisvlaskian method; deliberate performances create both reality and what seems so unreal about today’s Russia. With […]

Categorías: Hollywoodenses • Tags: Andrei Zvyagintsev, Bob Wilson, Leviathan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Willem Dafoe