Leviathan director Andrey Zvyagintsev won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2017 with this tense, hypnotic thriller. Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears. A complex portrait of a selfish society obsessed with status, Zvyagintsev’s film is a scathing critique of modern Russia.
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