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Synopsis

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is renowned filmmaker Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career. The documentary starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists, writers and musicians. Never-before-seen footage shot by Broomfield and legendary documentarian D.A. Pennebaker make for a unique portrait of an idyllic 1960's bohemia. It was a time that left a lasting imprint on both Marianne and Leonard, whose friendship would last another fifty years before their deaths in 2016.

Cast

  • Nick Broomfield
  • Nancy Bacal
  • Jeffrey Brown
  • Judy Collins
  • Ron Cornelius
  • Billy Donovan
  • Julie Felix
  • Helle Goldman
  • Aviva Layton
  • John Lissauer

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Metacritic

60
May 22, 2019

The doc swells with wonderful archival footage that immerses you in the hedonistic environment the principals occupied, but in ranging wide it somehow doesn’t go deep, or at least deep enough, into its twin protagonists to satisfy as the full story.

Metacritic review by Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
The Hollywood Reporter
83
May 22, 2019

As befits its subjects, Marianne Leonard is as much poetry as documentary — it’s a gentle, rhapsodic film, an emotional change of pace for its director and a moving portrait of a love that still resonates.

Metacritic review by Steve Pond
Steve Pond
TheWrap
70
May 22, 2019

It’s an entertaining flashback to an always-diverting countercultural epoch, with a touching footnote of a semi-famous love story at its center.

Metacritic review by Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
Variety