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Leonard cohen amazon5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Marianne Ihlen had first come to Hydra in early 1958, when the living conditions were primitive and the expat artists could be counted on one hand. ![]() Photograph: James Burke/The Life Picture Collection/Getty ImagesĪt the heart of this liberating idyll was a beautiful woman 13 years his senior, the mother of an eight-year-old boy. ![]() Leonard Cohen (holding the guitar) with Marianne (looking at him) and friends in Hydra, Greece, October 1960. ![]() And her effect on the film-maker was almost as influential as her part in the Canadian poet-musician’s career. They too were lovers for a while during one of the long breaks in Ihlen’s relationship with Cohen. Broomfield is not a disinterested observer. The relationship’s legacy was a catalogue of classic songs – So Long Marianne, Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye, Bird on the Wire – a great deal of heartache, but also a lasting sense of the creative power of love.Īll of this the documentary maker Nick Broomfield explores in his tender, funny and hauntingly moving new film Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love. Theirs had been a large and chaotic romance that was in many respects a product of the particular times (the 1960s) and the specific place (the Greek island of Hydra) in which they met. I n November 2016, the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, renowned for his plaintive ballads, died a few months after the woman who inspired many of them, his Norwegian lover and muse, Marianne Ihlen. ![]()
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