Film choice Leviathan (2014)

BBC FOUR, 10.20PM ★★★★

 Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev is a modern master and this film unfolds with the density of Dostoevsky, and hardly feels a moment too long. It’s a bleak but compassionate, glancingly comic and often satirically incendiary work about the pyramid structure of Russian corruption. It’s also a retelling of the biblical story of Job as a fisherman (Alexey Serebryakov) who fights back when a corrupt mayor tries to seize his ancestral home.