Movie theater. “Limonov, the ballad”, itinerary of a punk dandy

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He who dreamed of being… murdered, will end his life in a bed, defeated by cancer in 2020. He was 77 years old. He is Edouard Savenko, pen name: Limonov. The one who was born in Russia in 1943 had an unbridled existence to say the least.

A nihilist at heart from his early youth, he will slip into different costumes: worker, thug, poet, butler, figure of the literary avant-garde, soldier, prisoner, guru of a national Bolshevik micro-party, etc. . Moscow, Paris, New York were his improbable playgrounds.

A feverish camera

Emmanuel Carrère devoted a large volume of nearly 500 pages to it (editions P.O.L 2011) which was inspired by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov. What we will remember above all about this film is certainly the sumptuous cinematographic gesture of this filmmaker. Feverishly, his camera alternates between all possibilities, thus summoning on screen a chaos echoing the life of this sulphurous and toxic, terribly romantic character.

A brilliant… British actor!

To play this revolutionary militant dandy, strangely, the director chose a… British actor, no less than the extremely famous Q from the latest James Bond films: Ben Whishlaw. And how well he did. Finally a role worthy of this artist whose full potential it was easy to guess in his supporting roles. Here he is, explosive and committed, without limits, in this character.

Robert Pénavayre

Limonov, un film de Kirill Serebrennikov

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