Director
Nick Broomfield
Run Time
97 mins
Release Year
2018
Country of Origin
UK
Language
English, Norwegian
Director of Photography: Barney Broomfield
Editor: Marc Hoeferlin
Produced by: Nick Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin, Shani Hinton, Kyle Gibbon
Music: Nick Laid-Clowes
Scottish PREMIERE
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
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In the 1960s, when Leonard Cohen was a burgeoning novelist and poet, he met young Norwegian Marianne Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra. They fell in love and she became his muse, inspiring songs such as ‘So Long, Marianne’ and ‘Bird on the Wire’. In time, their relationship fractured and they lived apart, but as years passed and they grew older, the bond between them remained. Nick Broomfield – who also has links with Marianne and Hydra – tells a love story that is fascinating, tender and memorable. [12A]