The director of a Russian film about corruption that received favorable reviews in Cannes said on Friday Russia’s culture minister disapproved of it but he hoped it would be seen there despite pending curbs on profanity in entertainment. Director Andrei Zvyagintsev, whose film “Leviathan” is being shown in competition at the world’s most prestigious film festival, said he had shown it to Culture Minister Andrei Medinsky, whose office partly financed the movie, before bringing it to the festival. “He said the film was very talented but he didn’t like it,” Zvyagintsev said.
