Review of Listen to Me Marlon (2015) by Eric H — 10 Apr 2016
Creating a documentary around a person's audio recordings must not be an easy task. You have to find the narrative, after all, and you have to specifically choose such a limited amount of recordings that you think could work well in telling that person's life story.
But what is more important than that, is giving a glimpse into that person's essence, and that is exactly what I think this film does. There are a lot of things in Brando's life not covered, but then no documentary could do that.
What's more interesting than facts is being able to get inside a person's psyche and this very much accomplishes that and to a great, powerful extent. It's simply sublime in its filmmaking aspects as well, definitely a documentary that should stand the test of time (if seen by a wide audience).
This review of Listen to Me Marlon (2015) was written by Eric H on 10 Apr 2016.
Listen to Me Marlon has generally received very positive reviews.
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