Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov returns to Cannes as soon as once more this 12 months with Limonov: The Ballad starring Ben Whishaw, for which we are able to share a first-look picture from above.
The movie’s synopsis reads: A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground author, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But additionally a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of lovely girls, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey by way of Russia, America, and Europe in the course of the second half of the twentieth century.
The movie was written by Pawel Pawlikowski, Ben Hopkins, and Serebrennikov, based mostly on the novel ‘Limonov’ by Emmanuel Carrère, printed within the US by Macmillan Publishers and in France by POL.
Producers are Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside, a Fremantle Firm, Dimitri Rassam for Chapter 2, a Mediawan Firm, Ilya Stewart for Hype Studios and coproduced by Ardavan Safaee for Pathé and Nathalie García and Manuel Tera for Fremantle España. Pawlikowski is an exec producer.
Serebrennikov landed within the Cannes competitors this morning alongside Ali Abbasi, who brings The Apprentice, a characteristic pic concerning the early lifetime of Donald Trump. Andrea Arnold returns with Hen, starring Barry Keoghan, and Jacques Audiard’s newest, Emilia Perez, a musical with Selena Gomez will even debut in competitors.
Elsewhere, American filmmaker Sean Baker brings Anora to the Croisette. Poor Issues filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos will launch Sorts of Kindness, his newest collab with Emma Stone. David Cronenberg returns with The Shrouds, and Paul Schrader will debut Oh Canada starring Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, and Richard Gere. The Cannes Movie Competition runs Could 14-25.