An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self - Writer and Poet
- (as Richard Vick)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA lot of the footage of the couple was shot by D.A. Pennebaker who had also stayed on the island of Hydra.
- Quotes
Self, also narrator and interviewer: It was the 60s, in the time of free love and open marriage, including Leonard and Marianne's. I was a rather lost 20 year old visiting the island of Hydra when Marianne befriended me. For a short while, I became one of her lovers. She encouraged me to follow my dreams and she played me Leonard's songs under the Greek moon and stars. Her smile and enthusiasm were one of a kind and I fell completely intoxicated by the beauty of their relationship.
- ConnectionsEdited from Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965)
There were other women - many of them, sometimes more than one a day. Free Love, fueled by drugs - acid, uppers, downers - was just an excuse for promiscuity, but promiscuity was mandatory in the 1960s. And not without casualties: suicides and deaths from overdoses. Marianne had a son by her first husband, Axel, whom we see as a happy child on the island. Like other children of that era, he ended in an institution.
Cohen has given us some great songs, and his dark gravelly voice is one of the iconic sounds of the last sixty years, but Nick Broomfield's unflinching documentary paints a portrait of an egotistical, self-destructive man who took up women and dropped them as casually as a Kleenex.
Three months before he died and knowing death was coming, he sent a love-letter to Marianne who was in her final days. So maybe, the man had a heart. His songs seem to say so, but his life rather less so.
- davidgee
- Aug 2, 2019
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- Also known as
- Marianne & Leonard: Aşk Sözleri
- Filming locations
- Hydra, Greece(island, main location)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,012,034
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $44,942
- Jul 7, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $3,311,263
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1