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Review: In “Marianne & Leonard,” a Love Born in Greece and Immortalized in Song
It’s not exactly a hit parade, the songs that have been turned into movies. There was the shambling reconstruction of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant,” the fizzy pop of “Earth Girls Are Easy,” the Sandra Bullock rom-com “Love Potion No.9.” But digging into a Leonard Cohen song, as the documentary “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” does, holds more promise. Cohen’s songs can hold eternities in them.
And the story behind Cohen’s classic ballad “So Long, Marianne” is indeed one that spans many years, from the masterful Montreal singer-songwriter’s beginnings to his death in 2016. In the early ’60s, Cohen was living far from his native Canada in a sun-kissed bohemia paradise on the Greek island of Hydra, taking acid, writing feverishly and falling in love with a young, blonde, warm-spirited Norwegian woman named Marianne Ihlen.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/252187/review-in-marianne-leonard-a-love-immortalized-in-song/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOnQmmmlkw
https://youtu.be/aLOnQmmmlkw?t=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsRNV1cJ-jA
https://youtu.be/EsRNV1cJ-jA?t=1
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I loved Alice's Restaurant at the time it came out and watched it again the other day. Still relevant.