Starring Ben Whishaw

Starring Ben Whishaw

5 Episodes

One of the most thoughtful and quietly compelling actors working today, Ben Whishaw—currently nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for his lead performance in PETER HUJAR’S DAY—projects a soulful sensitivity and soft-spoken intensity in his emotionally layered portrayals of dreamers, misfits, and romantics. Whether embodying the quixotic yearning of poet John Keats in BRIGHT STAR, the heartbreaking vulnerability of a young man grieving his boyfriend’s death in LILTING, or the wild punk swagger of renegade Russian writer Eduard Limonov in LIMONOV: THE BALLAD, Whishaw is never less than riveting, conveying deep recesses of thought and feeling with understated precision.

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Starring Ben Whishaw

5 Episodes

  • Bright Star
    1:59:22
    Bright Star
    Episode 1

    Bright Star

    Episode 1

    Directed by Jane Campion • 2009 • United Kingdom, France
    Starring Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider

    Jane Campion’s rapturous period romance is an exquisite vision of transcendent love set in the literary world of the nineteenth century. A secret affair begins between twenty-three-year-o...

  • Limonov: The Ballad
    2:13:15
    Limonov: The Ballad
    Episode 2

    Limonov: The Ballad

    Episode 2

    Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov • 2024 • France, Italy, Spain
    Starring Ben Whishaw, Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Masha Mashkova

    Rebel, iconoclast, outlaw, and counterculture provocateur: controversial Russian writer and political dissident Eduard Limonov was all of these things and more. In Kirill...

  • Lilting
    1:26:29
    Lilting
    Episode 3

    Lilting

    Episode 3

    Directed by Hong Khaou • 2014 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Andrew Leung

    Set in contemporary London, LILTING features intensely moving performances by martial-arts legend Cheng Pei Pei as Junn, a Cambodian-Chinese mother grieving the untimely death of her only son, and Be...

  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    2:27:44
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    Episode 4

    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

    Episode 4

    Directed by Tom Tykwer • 2006 • Germany, France, Spain
    Starring Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood

    Tom Tykwer (RUN LOLA RUN) directs this ravishingly stylized adaptation of Patrick Süskind’s best-selling novel, set in an intoxicating vision of eighteenth-century France where Jean-Baptis...

  • Brideshead Revisited
    2:13:12
    Brideshead Revisited
    Episode 5

    Brideshead Revisited

    Episode 5

    Directed by Julian Jarrold • 2008 • United Kingdom
    Starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell

    Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel of class, Catholicism, forbidden desire, and youthful abandon giving way to adult disillusionment comes to the screen in a seductively opulent adaptation. In 1920s E...

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