"It's not a conventional linear archival footage and talking heads treatment of Faithfull's life. Rather, it puts the then-living Faithfull (who passed in January of this year), in ill health and plugged into an oxygen supply, as she recounts her life to actor George MacKay, who plays a representative of "The Institute of Not Forgetting," whose efforts are overseen from a control room of sorts by a supervisor played by Tilda Swinton."
"Faithfull is iconoclastically boisterous as she bristles over her (arguably inaccurate) notion that she's best known to the world as "Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend." Her formidable and varied discography is a vital contradiction to that idea, but I don't want to argue with her, and I can't, as she passed earlier this year. Regardless of what you make of the film's conceit, Faithfull's presence bristles throughout, and makes the enterprise compelling. She made everything she touched compelling."
An attendee experienced gratitude and exhaustion after the 82nd Biennale of Film due to multiple daily screenings. The program included Park Chan-wook's 'No Other Choice', Olivier Assayas' 'The Wizard of the Kremlin', and 'Broken English', co-directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. 'Broken English' is an adventurous documentary made with Marianne Faithfull's cooperation and adopts an unusual, non-linear conceit. The film places a frail, oxygen-dependent Faithfull recounting her life to actor George MacKay, who represents 'The Institute of Not Forgetting', while a supervisor played by Tilda Swinton oversees proceedings. Faithfull bristles at being remembered chiefly as 'Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend' and projects a compelling presence throughout.
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