Though singer-songwriter and countercultural icon Marianne Faithfull died earlier this year, at the age of 78, this witty, provocative, and playfully post-modern docu-bio is sure to keep her indomitable spirit alive. Directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard certainly have experience with rock’n’roll troublemakers — they covered the turbulent life of Nick Cave in their 2014 cult hit 20,000 Days on Earth — but they’re also firmly in tune with the poetic interior lives of artists of any stripe, which is what Broken English explores very well and very movingly. Above all else, it’s a film about a talented woman who just wanted to make her voice heard , and both the British media and the music industry — in the ’60s and even after that, sadly — don’t come out of it very well at al

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