Featuring: Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Ron Cornelius, Helle Goldman, Marianne Ihlen, Richard Vick | Directed by Nick Broomfield
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is an eye-opening account of a doomed love affair on an international stage. Directed by documentarian auteur Nick Broomfield, the film follows Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne. A relationship that starts during the 1960s on a small Greek island named Hydra and ends fifty years later, three months and two continents apart at the ripe old ages of 82 and 81 respectively. Broomfield’s documentary is arguably the best work from the director in almost two decades. An extraordinary piece of heartfelt cinema that explores the melancholic intricacy of poets alike. Exploring an unrequited doomed fascination in the opposite sex.
Broomfield’s latest feature is undoubtedly his best work since the late 90s and early 2000s. It is in no way a greater exploration of human character found...
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is an eye-opening account of a doomed love affair on an international stage. Directed by documentarian auteur Nick Broomfield, the film follows Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne. A relationship that starts during the 1960s on a small Greek island named Hydra and ends fifty years later, three months and two continents apart at the ripe old ages of 82 and 81 respectively. Broomfield’s documentary is arguably the best work from the director in almost two decades. An extraordinary piece of heartfelt cinema that explores the melancholic intricacy of poets alike. Exploring an unrequited doomed fascination in the opposite sex.
Broomfield’s latest feature is undoubtedly his best work since the late 90s and early 2000s. It is in no way a greater exploration of human character found...
- 7/26/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Nick Broomfield’s longtime friendship with Marianne Ihlen is the point of entry for “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love,” which tells the story of the ’60s romance between Norwegian divorcee Ihlen and Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was a relationship that cast a long shadow in both their lives, as well as in popular culture, though its sporadic nature also spoke to the era’s Free Love ethos and Cohen’s short-attention-span romanticism in particular. Broomfield, a dogged protagonist in films like “Tales of the Grim Sleeper” and “Tracking Down Maggie,” to name just a couple, pretty much keeps out of the way here, letting plentiful archival footage and a few latter-day interviewees (but neither Ihlen nor Cohen) tell the tale.
Since Cohen’s relentlessly self-reflective life has been amply documented, and Ihlen’s considerably less so, much of this ostensible dual portrait ends up being a recap of Cohen...
Since Cohen’s relentlessly self-reflective life has been amply documented, and Ihlen’s considerably less so, much of this ostensible dual portrait ends up being a recap of Cohen...
- 2/9/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Leonard Cohen's career was on the verge of complete disaster in late 1971. Songs of Love and Hate, his most recent record, peaked at #145 on the American charts – this despite containing future classics like "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "Joan of Arc." CBS was ready to cut their losses and drop him from the label. A tour would give him the chance to regain some momentum, though Cohen hated performing live; he only reluctantly agreed to a one-month run in Europe because Songs of Love and Hate found a much bigger...
- 1/19/2017
- Rollingstone.com
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