Ben Whishaw in Biopic of Russian Writer
Reflecting the peculiarities and contradictions of the person who offers the movie its title, Limonov: The Ballad is a wierd, stilted, creative, kaleidoscopic, difficult, imaginative and — above all, and maybe solely deliberately — irritating biopic of the Russian poet-punk-prisoner-gadfly-neo-Fascist Eduard Limonov (né Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko in 1948). To paraphrase the novelist Julian Barnes’ assessment … Read more