Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
The film\'s excess of energy almost never burns out, pummeling you with the bacchanal brewing inside its lead.
The Guardian
It\'s an exhilarating, alarming look at that much discussed subject: the Russian soul.
Screen Daily
Certainly the film comes across in its revved-up, fragmented, ramshackle way as a modern Russian epic ? with Limonov as a unique anomalous individual, yet at the same time somehow exemplifying the contradictions and neuroses of a tormented modern nation. He also comes across as a human, flawed figure, self-aggrandising, self-pitying, sometimes helplessly romantic.
The Hollywood Reporter
A work that is very recognizably Serebrennikov\'s, which is to say it\'s nostalgic for the Soviet era, outlandishly celebratory of the callow charms of bohemian youth (compare with his pop-music-themed Leto), baggy to the point of undisciplined (see Petrov\'s Flu) and full of long, fluid, roaming, handheld single takes (applicable to nearly all his works).
Variety
Given all its omissions and elisions, and the sense of coolness-cosplay that permeates this noisy but lifeless film, 'Limonov' might not be a total misapprehension of the mercurial, charismatic and infuriating Eduard Limonov, but it is at least a mispronunciation.