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Listen to Me Marlon

2015 · 103 min

An intimate, hypnotic self-portrait assembled from a lifetime of audio tapes, inviting you to sit inside a legend's restless mind.

Tagline
Intimate. Explicit. Uninhibited.
Overview
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • art
  • memory
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Stevan Riley
Written by
Stevan Riley, Peter Ettedgui
Starring
Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bette Davis, Montgomery Clift, Anna Kashfi, Dick Cavett, Francis Ford Coppola, Konstantin Stanislavski
Cinematography
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Runtime
103 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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