NR, 87 min.
Directors: Lucien
Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Featuring: Captain Brian
Jannelle
I have no idea how they
filmed “Leviathan”. It is a documentary about a fishing vessel. There is no
dialogue, no commentary, no explanations. That’s not to say there is no
narrative. There are long passages of film when it is impossible to tell just
what you’re looking at, including the opening sequence.
You sit there trying to
piece together the fractured images you’re seeing. Slowly you begin to put this
piece with that and eventually you realized you are looking at one of those big
fishing nets being hauled aboard a boat as the crew readies themselves to
prepare the catch. There are aspects of what you see that are revolting. There
are episodes of dreary routine. Have you ever wondered where scallops come
from? You won’t after seeing this movie.
The reason I don’t know how
they filmed this, however, is because there are also sequences where the camera
splashes below the surface of the water. Sure, I suppose there are underwater
cameras for those types of things, but the camera in this movie is tossed about
underneath the waves and on top of them. It’s pelted by debris being tossed off
the boat and even attacked by flocks of seagulls. The gulls are so ravenous,
I’m tempted to refer to them as a murder instead of a flock.
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