Broken English
Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth / GB, 2025 / 99 min.
Semi-fictional documentary about 1960’s icon Marianne Faithfull. Two civil servants from the fictitious 'Ministry of Not Forgetting' decide to shoot a film about the singer who was so much more than merely a Mick Jagger’s muse. Featuring Tilda Swinton (actor), Nick Cave and Courtney Love.
The new government body, the ‘Ministry of Not Forgetting’, employs civil servants whose job it is to determine how cultural icons should be remembered. Their first subject: Marianne Faithfull.
Tilda Swinton and George MacKay play the civil servants, who believe that the reputation of the author of the song ‘Sister Morphine’, hijacked by the Rolling Stones, and of the classic pop album ‘Broken English’, could do with some adjustment. After all, wasn’t Faithfull much more than merely a 1960’s pop icon and Mick Jagger’s muse?
Faithfull collaborated intensively on this film until shortly before her death and, as was the case throughout her life, she is superbly outspoken. Precisely due to its idiosyncratic artifices, this has resulted in a deeply intimate portrait of a life shaped by fame, tragedy, inspiration and the gutter press.
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Director
Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth
Production year
2025
Country
GB
Original title
Broken English
Length
99 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
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