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‘Limonov’s Ben Whishaw Recalls His First Cannes In 2009: “I Have A Horrifying Memory”


Ben Whishaw on playing a Russian punk poet in Cannes Competition film ‘Limonov: The Ballad’: “His Whole Life Was Rebellion.”

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov to Cannes this year with his fourth film in Competition and his first in English. Here, he talks about getting to grips with an enigma and recalls his first-ever Cannes for her movie Bright Star in 2009. But there are so many layers of artifice in the film, not least in the fact that it’s in English, but we start the story in Russia.

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