A sensitive and intimate portrayal of their time together, a love story that only spanned a handful of years but resonated for decades.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

A deeply moving account of a love story for the ages.

| Jul 21, 2020

If you are happy to embrace the myth, then you may find yourself quite moved by this film. But, if you were hoping for something a bit more clear-eyed and truthful, you may be as underwhelmed as I was.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 14, 2020

Perhaps more interesting is the inevitable portrait of the musician. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2020

Poignant, drug-heavy music doc celebrates the power of love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2020

Broomfield may care about [Marianne Ihlen], but his film just cares about the manic pixie dream girl with flowers in her hair.

| Jan 17, 2020

This subject matter must have hit home hard for the prolific British documentary director Nick Broomfield; he too had a long personal history with Ehlen. Perhaps that's why there's an unusual emotional intensity to the film.

| Jan 6, 2020

The home video footage of the young couple on Hydra, and of Cohen elsewhere, is fascinating to watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2019

This film is different precisely because Broomfield was a long-time friend of Marianne. His heart is invested, which gives the film a welcome intimacy and warmth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2019

...poignant and moving...

| Original Score: 16/20 | Nov 22, 2019

Let's just call it "Leonard & Marianne," because it's just mostly about him.

| Oct 1, 2019

Documentary demonstrates that Cohen, like so many male artists ... fit a pattern of an archetypal Jewish men's fantasy fulfillment. His muse was a blonde gentile goddess.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 9, 2019

Marianne & Leonard feels too much like a bunch of people speculating about what their friends' diary says.

| Aug 14, 2019

It's an uneven but affectionate portrait of two people who are drawn together, creating sparks and conflagrations whenever they came into contact.

| Aug 14, 2019

In 1994, Cohen, always questing, entered Mt. Baldy Zen, a Buddhist monastery east of Los Angeles. He stayed there five years, then returned to music. He went back on tour in 2009, and gave Marianne front-row seats for his Oslo concert.

| Original Score: 4 | Aug 9, 2019

Neither an enlightening account of the eponymous affair nor a comprehensive portrait of the artist as a continually evolving man.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 7, 2019

Never do we learn how it felt to be the woman to whom [Leonard] Cohen would say "so long" every night on stage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 4, 2019

The doc often veers from the relationship to focus on Cohen's career. It often feels unnecessary. At the same time, the film fails to make inroads on the central mystery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2019

There is often a shallow, tabloid feel to this biographical film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 2, 2019

Marianne & Leonard is a lovely, touching film that never dares to suggest that a relationship that didn't follow the conventional romantic template doesn't deserve as much respect as those that do.

| Aug 2, 2019