‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw Stars in a Portrait of a Radical That Is All Swagger and No Game
Chapter titles, rendered in faux Soviet-propaganda-poster font slam across the image as Limonov (Ben Whishaw), smirking in a stars and stripes shirt, announces in heavily accented English (the lingua franca of the movie no matter the actual language of the speaker) “I am an independent communist.