Rock icon Marianne Faithfull's six-decade journey through music, fame and reinvention unfolds in an intimate documentary, blending reality and imagination as she makes her final artistic statement.
This is an inventive semi-dramatised documentary which features George MacKay and Tilda Swinton. It is a film which is fully infused with Marianne Faithfull's distinctive spirit – free, candid and rebellious to the core. It all culminates with her last recorded musical performance - gently singing the aching, yearning ‘Misunderstanding’ (from her 2018 album ‘Negative Capability’) with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. With that one sequence, ‘Broken English’ delivers the kind of transcendent moment that will have you bawling in the aisles. The directors had previously made the Sundance prize-winning film about Nick Cave, ‘20,000 Days on Earth’.
UK 2025 Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard 99m
