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  • 2019
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  • Roadside Attractions
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  • 2019
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Summary 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 ...

Directed By: Nick Broomfield

Written By: Marc Hoeferlin, Nick Broomfield

  • 2019
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2019
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 42 m

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
69
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary 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 ...

Directed By: Nick Broomfield

Written By: Marc Hoeferlin, Nick Broomfield

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
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26% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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90
Jul 11, 2019
While Broomfield’s films often take a sardonic, close-to-cynical tone, “Marianne & Leonard” is admiring, affectionate and a little awe-struck.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
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.
By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW

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80
Jul 8, 2019
My ideal Leonard Cohen documentary would contain another hour’s worth of concert footage and be screened outdoors on the island of Hydra. Otherwise, this is as full a filmed portrait of the man and his muse as you could ever hope to see.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 9, 2019
Dutifully covering the rise, fall and final triumph of Cohen’s career, Broomfield relegates Ihlen to the background of her own story, before bringing her back for the film’s touching final act and devastating epilogue. Achieving the kind of balance to which Cohen always aspired, Marianne & Leonard is heartbreaking and heartening in Zen-like equal measure.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
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.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
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.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 26, 2019
The lines between artist and muse are too clean cut to capture the visceral and intimate emotion of two lovers. Broomfield’s approach feels more intrusive than reflective, reducing the private story to public gossip.
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Production Company British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Kew Media Group
Release Date Jul 5, 2019
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
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Website https://www.marianneandleonardwordsoflove.com/
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Awards

FOCAL International Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Warsaw International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Rose d'Or
• 1 Nomination

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