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Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie

2024 2h 19m Drama Biography History List
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Justin Chang New Yorker Why make a film about Eduard Limonov, the globe-trotting Russian dissident poet and punk provocateur reviled for his pro-fascist sympathies? The filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov never musters a satisfying answer in this muddled English-language bio-pic. May 30, 2024 Full Review Isaac Feldberg Little White Lies [Whishaw] has never had a role quite as complex and contradictory as that of Limonov... It’s a fascinating, slow-motion car crash of a performance: destined for destruction, spiralling magnificently all the way down. May 24, 2024 Full Review Leslie Felperin Hollywood Reporter Limonov: The Ballad is a strange, stilted, inventive, kaleidoscopic, challenging, imaginative and — above all, and perhaps entirely intentionally — irritating biopic... May 22, 2024 Full Review Conor Truax In Review Online [The film's] poetry is sullied by its (valiant, or asinine?) attempt to create a detailed lyrical biography of a different kind, one whose collapsing self-seriousness does evince an incidental source of humor—it’s a film that you can’t help but laugh at. May 22, 2024 Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com As counterpart or recompense, Serebrennikov delivers a few scenes of enormous intensity with the old axiom of sex, drugs (plus a lot of alcohol), and rock and roll. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3.5/5 May 21, 2024 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com There seems to be little point in Serebrennikov’s watered down Limonov, which has the audacity to include The Ballad as part of its title when it clearly avoids capturing what made Eduard Limonov extraordinary, notable, controversial, or even human. Rated: 2/5 May 21, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Movie Info

Director
Kirill Serebrennikov
Producer
Ilya Stewart, Dimitri Rassam, Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani
Screenwriter
Kirill Serebrennikov, Paweł Pawlikowski, Ben Hopkins, Emmanuel Carrère, Pawel Pawlikowski
Production Co
Wildside, Chapter 2, Fremantle España, Hype Studios, France 3 Cinéma
Genre
Drama, Biography, History
Original Language
Italian
Runtime
2h 19m