Limonov: The Ballad
dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
FR, IT, ES, 2024, 138′
Straight from this year’s Cannes comes the controversial biography of the even more controversial Russian writer Eduard Limonov (Ben Whishaw), a Soviet beatnik turned Russian radical nationalist. Director Kiril Serebrennikov returns to Cinehill after six years. In the meantime, he spent two years under house arrest, defected to the West, and has now made his first film as a political emigree.
