Serebrennikov’s film about Limonov will compete with Francis Ford Coppola’s new film
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The film stars Ben Whishaw, Victoria Miroshnichenko, Maria Mashkova and Sandrine Bonner
In the main competition of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which opens on May 14, the premiere of the film “Limonov. The Ballad of Eddie” by Kirill Serebrennikov. It was filmed in English, and the main role was played by 43-year-old British actor Ben Whishaw.
The film is announced as a co-production of three countries – Italy, France and Spain. Russia is not on the list of producers, although filming began when Kirill Serebrennikov was in his homeland. The work was completed in Europe. The director left the country two years ago immediately after his conviction in the high-profile Seventh Studio case was cleared.
His new film is based on the novel “Lemonov” by the French writer Emmanuel Carrère, which is very popular in Europe and received a prestigious literary award in Paris. The script was written by Kirill Serebrennikov in tandem with Ben Hopkins and Pavel Pawlikowski. Well-known among us, Pawlikowski is a director of Polish origin living in Canada, who directed “Cold War,” the Oscar-winning “Ida,” “Last Resort” with Dina Korzun, “Stringer” with Sergei Bodrov Jr. He once wrote a script about Limonov and was supposed to film it, but he lost interest in this idea.
Ben Whishaw, who played Limonov, is a graduate of the British Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a performer of the role of Hamlet at the Old Vic Theater in London, and a winner of the Golden Globe, Emmy, and BAFTA TB awards. Among his outstanding works are “Perfume” and “Cloud Atlas” by Tom Tykwer, “The Story of David Copperfield” by Armando Iannucci.
The role of Limonov’s second wife, poetess Elena Shchapova, was played by the talented young actress Victoria Miroshnichenko. Her film debut took place in “Dylda” by Kantemir Balagov, and for this role she was nominated for the European Film Academy Award.
The film also starred: Maria Mashkova, who lives in the USA – the daughter of Vladimir Mashkov and actress Elena Shevchenko, the French star Sandrine Bonner, who starred in the film “East-West” by Regis Warnier with Oleg Menshikov and Sergei Bodrov Jr. The script for this film was written by Rustam Ibragimbekov and Sergei Bodrov Sr. One of the roles was played by the American actor Odin Land Byron – Tchaikovsky in Serebrennikov’s previous film “Tchaikovsky’s Wife”. One graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and worked in Moscow at the Satyricon Theater and the Gogol Center, where he played Chichikov in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Dead Souls.
The film about Limonov was shot by cameraman Roman Vasyanov, a graduate of VGIK, a student of the legendary Vadim Yusov. He has been working in the United States for almost 15 years, making three films with director David Ayer – “Fury” with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf, “Overwatch” with Jake Gyllenhaal, and “Bright” with Will Smith and Noomi Rapace. Vasyanov also worked with Valery Todorovsky in the films “Vise”, “Hipsters”, “Odessa” and made his debut as a director with the film “Dorm” based on the novel “Dorm-on-Blood” by Alexei Ivanov.
“Limonov. The Ballad of Eddie” is Serebrennikov’s fifth film to be seen at Cannes. “The Apprentice” participated in “Un Certain Regard.” Then there were “Summer” and “Petrovs in the Flu” in the main competition, but Serebrennikov himself could not imagine the films then, since he was under house arrest in the “Seventh Studio” case. Two years ago, he already personally participated in the festival with Tchaikovsky’s Wife, having briefly arrived from Amsterdam, where he was rehearsing Weber’s opera Free Shooter.
Before the Cannes premiere, a draft version of Tchaikovsky’s Wife was leaked onto the Internet. And on the eve of the premiere, there were demands from the Ukrainian side to remove the film from the competition. Now the figure of Limonov himself, his beliefs and statements about Ukraine are being attacked. Serebrennikov, meanwhile, has already shot a new film, “The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele” (France-Mexico), with German actor August Diehl in the title role (Woland in “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Lokshin).
The film about Limonov is one of 19 presented in the main competition. The jury, led by American director Greta Gerwig, who directed “Barbie,” will face a difficult choice, since they will be judging the work of legends of world cinema.
85-year-old Francis Ford Coppola, a two-time winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, will present Megapolis, which he worked on for almost forty years. After the announcement of the Cannes program, it became known that the American classic and author of “The Godfather” lost his beloved wife Elinor (Sofia Coppola’s mother), who was always with him and was probably going to Cannes. She wrote the book Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now, a diary of the making of the Palme d’Or-winning film.
The main competition will also feature 81-year-old Canadian classic David Cronenberg with his partly autobiographical but also fantastical “Shroud.” The main role in it was played by Vincent Cassel, whose hero established a connection with the souls of the dead, including his late wife. Cronenberg became a widower in 2017 and directed The Death of David Cronenberg in 2021.
The main competition will also feature the premiere of the film “Anora” by American director Sean Baker about the intricacies of the sex industry. The film starred Yura Borisov, who had already presented “Coupe number 6” by Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen at Cannes. One of the roles was played by 22-year-old graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School Mark Eidelstein, who, despite his youth, has a serious filmography behind him – “Country Sasha”, “Monastery”, “The Righteous”, “One Hundred Years Ahead”.
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English-speaking Limonov will go to Cannes
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