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Listen to Me Marlon

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United Kingdom · 2015
1h 43m
Director Stevan Riley
Starring Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bette Davis, Montgomery Clift
Genre Documentary

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 biography, charting his exceptional career and life away from the screen. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

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New York Daily News by

The result is fascinating. That goes both for acting students, since we get insights into Brando’s craft, and those looking for gossip.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

The pic is a superbly crafted collage whose soundtrack is as complexly textured as the curation and editing of visual elements.

70

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

While its subject means that "Listen to Me” is easy to like, Mr. Riley’s shaping of Brando’s words can make the movie, every so often, difficult to fully embrace.

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The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Listen To Me Marlon suffers from an atrocious score that frequently sounds like it belongs in a useless Oscar montage, and it doesn’t reveal much about Brando that cinephiles don’t already know. But the man himself is endlessly fascinating, so it’s hard to fault a movie that ditches anything extraneous (especially talking-head testimonials) in order to let him tell his own story in his own words.

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New York Post by Sara Stewart

Whether you’re a veteran Brando-phile or a newcomer, Listen to Me Marlon is a totally fascinating glimpse into the making (and unmaking, and remaking) of a legend.

90

Village Voice by Stephanie Zacharek

There's nothing quite like it in the world of Hollywood documentaries, though Riley's presentation of this rich material is at times a little discomfiting.

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