Leviathan

Before entering, a request: let’s forget what it means to watch a film, to be in a movie theater. Let’s face the colossus that is Leviathan from scratch, to better enjoy the experience that immerses all senses and swings a stormy voyage to the limits of nature and human strength. Filmed with twelve GoPro cameras (how many were lost in the process?), the film follows the travels of a fishing boat at sea on the east coast of the United States. The images are the look of Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, but more so of the fishermen and the fish – living and dead ‚ that we encounter in these troubled waters. We feel the skin of each battle as if we abandon ourselves to the wind, the rain, at the mercy of a sea more distant than we are used to, sunny and seductive. Fancy forgetting Leviathan just to see it again for the first time. (M. M.)