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(sequência daqui) Broken English percorre a história de vida de Faithfull, abordando a sua experiência boémia, as ligações aos Rolling Stones, a tentativa de suicídio em 1969, a longa amizade com Allen Ginsberg, a queda no vício da heroína, os inúmeros regressos, as colaborações com o produtor Hal Wilner e muito mais. Tilda Swinton e George McKay interpretam funcionários do "Ministério do Não Esquecimento", cuja missão é assegurar que o seu trabalho mais importante receba o devido reconhecimento. Aparentemente, isto significa destacar as suas credenciais feministas pioneiras e as suas conquistas artísticas mais subestimadas, ao mesmo tempo que se minimiza a mitologia repugnante dos media sensacionalistas. Este retrato entrelaça imagens de arquivo e reflexões pessoais , tratando os realizadores Iain Forsyth e Jane Pollard de abordar o legado de Faithfull de um ângulo indirecto, combinando novas entrevistas com material de arquivo - as cenas em que mantém um diálogo melancólico com a sua versão mais jovem são inevitavelmente comoventes -, articulado com actuações musicais de Marianne, e de um elenco de apoio de amigos e seguidores, incluindo Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Courtney Love, Suki Waterhouse, Thurston Moore e outros. Filmado durante o período final de uma longa luta contra o enfisema, a pneumonia e a Covid, Marianne Faithfull nunca chegaria a assistir ao seu derradeiro legado.

PUNK'S NOT DEAD


Women Of Antiquity - Anselm Kiefer, 2002

"On Wednesday night, at 7 p.m., Courtney Love was, by her assessment, 'slightly drunk'. She was sitting in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel, giving an impromptu concert with a guitarist and an entourage of friends. She wore a strapless white Marchesa gown, which appeared to be slipping off, and she knocked over a martini when I walked over and greeted her. 'I just need half an hour', she said, ignoring the mess. She directed me to wait in her room on the sixth floor, where she has resided, on and off, for much of the last year. She stayed behind, talking to André Balazs, the hotel’s owner, with whom she has been romantically linked in the past. (...)

Shortly after 8 p.m., Ms. Love burst into the room with the Marchesa dress slung on one arm and the noted German Neo-Expressionist artist Anselm Kiefer on the other. She was entirely naked and leaning on Mr. Kiefer for support. She made one lap around the room, walking in front of a photographer, an assistant, a hairstylist and me. She pulled over her head a transparent lace dress that covered up nothing, and demanded my assistance — 'Not you', she said to Mr. Kiefer, who was bent over trying to help her — to stuff her feet into a pair of black Givenchy heels that were zipped up the back and tied with delicate laces in the front. Then she applied a slash of red lipstick in the vicinity of her mouth.

'I really must get out of here', Mr. Kiefer said.

'Just a minute', Ms. Love said, as she pushed her feet, shoes and all, through a pair of pink knickers that she said cost $4,000. She grabbed a trench coat, walked through the hotel lobby with her breasts exposed to an assortment of prominent fashion figures, including Stefano Pilati, the Yves Saint Laurent designer, and then exited the hotel.

This is not at all how this story was meant to begin".
(entrevista completa de Eric Wilson para o "NY Times" aqui)