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Leviathan

Ongoing

Location: Kaufman Courtyard

Please note new location: This screening will be held next door at the Zukor Theater at Kaufman Astoria Studios, 34-12 36 St (enter on 35 St, just north of 35 Ave).

Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev. 2014, 140 mins. Digital projection. In Russian with English subtitles. With Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, still-emergent auteur Andrei Zvyagintsev’s fourth feature (his first, The Return, was released during Putin’s first term) remains his most politically pointed to date. A modern-day riff on the story of Job, it stars the reliably imposing yet here surprisingly vulnerable Aleksey Serebryakov as an auto mechanic in the Kola Peninsula, on the northwestern tip of Russia, who is forced to wage war against a corrupt, bureaucratic system that threatens to dismantle his home and family. Zvyagintsev’s ambitious narrative explores shifting mores between men and women, citizens and the state, politicians and the clergy, and the multifarious degradation of individual lives in post-Soviet Russia. 

Double-Feature Offer: Your ticket will also give you admission to the 7:00 p.m. screening of Zvyagintsev’s Loveless

Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online(Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)

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