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Summary Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts, the country’s largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbor every month, Leviathan follows one such vessel, a hulking groundfish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters. Filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Verena Paravel (Foreign Parts) use a ...

Leviathan
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
must-see
81
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 28 User Ratings
6.0
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Summary Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts, the country’s largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbor every month, Leviathan follows one such vessel, a hulking groundfish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters. Filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Verena Paravel (Foreign Parts) use a ...

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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76% Positive
13 Reviews
24% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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76% Positive
13 Reviews
24% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 28 User Ratings
6.0
61% Positive
17 Ratings
4% Mixed
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36% Negative
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Production Company Arrête ton Cinéma, Cinereach, Creative Capital, Film Study Center, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, LEF Moving Image Fund, McMillan-Stewart Foundation, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)
Release Date Mar 1, 2013
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Not Rated
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations