Review of Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull (1979) by Joan-Of A — 27 Jul 2011

Well directed and with a great cast, Cassavettes draws you into her fascinating world of longing and loneliness via a well paced plot and two excellent leads, perfectly capturing the purgatory of failed expectations, mid-life realizations and the ebb and flow of fortuitous romance.

However, some atrocious dialogue, (delivered with all the sophistication and conviction of a Porn movie) frequently clunky acting (everyone except Rowlands, Poupard and Posey) and some seriously far fetched story-line conceits make this a somewhat puzzling mix of the very good and the very bad.