‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Perplexing Portrait of a Russian Writer and Dissident
Reflecting the peculiarities and contradictions of the man who gives the film its title, Limonov: The Ballad is a strange, stilted, inventive, kaleidoscopic, challenging, imaginative and above all, and perhaps entirely intentionally irritating biopic of the Russian poet-punk-prisoner-gadfly-neo-Fascist Eduard Limonov (n Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko in 1948). To paraphrase the novelist Julian Barnes review of Emmanuel Carreres sort-of novel, sort-of biography...
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