Review of Leviathan (2014) by Anthony Lane for The New Yorker — 30 Dec 2014
Leviathan is a tale for vertiginous times, with the ruble in free fall. There must be thousands of stories like Kolya’s right now, lives folding and collapsing, upon which Zvyagintsev could cast his unfoolable eye.
Despite that, he is not primarily a satirist, or even a social commentator; he is the calm surveyor of a fallen world, and Leviathan, for all its venom, never writhes out of control.
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This review of Leviathan (2014) was written by Anthony Lane and published by The New Yorker on 30 Dec 2014.
Leviathan has generally received very positive reviews.
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