“’I sacrificed my love on the altars of fame,’ Leonard Cohen said in the ‘70s,” “So Long, Marianne” showrunner Øystein Karlsen notes. Cohen was referring of course to his ‘60s decade-long relationship with Norway’s Marianne Ilhen, which shaped him for life.
One of the highest-profile and most anticipated world premieres in Series Mania main competition, “So Long, Marianne” is a coming of age love story which, in a quietly innovative, genre-breaking turn, asks whether the place in the world chosen by one character, Leonard Cohen, was always for his good.
Sold by Cineflix Rights as an eight-part series, “So Long, Marianne” begins in 1959 focusing on Norway’s Marianne Ilhen and Cohen’s love idyll on Hydra, a Greek island, which Ilhen reaches as the partner of budding Norwegian novelist Axel Jensen, and Cohen looking to find a place where, he says in Episode 1, he “can take responsibility for my own identity.
One of the highest-profile and most anticipated world premieres in Series Mania main competition, “So Long, Marianne” is a coming of age love story which, in a quietly innovative, genre-breaking turn, asks whether the place in the world chosen by one character, Leonard Cohen, was always for his good.
Sold by Cineflix Rights as an eight-part series, “So Long, Marianne” begins in 1959 focusing on Norway’s Marianne Ilhen and Cohen’s love idyll on Hydra, a Greek island, which Ilhen reaches as the partner of budding Norwegian novelist Axel Jensen, and Cohen looking to find a place where, he says in Episode 1, he “can take responsibility for my own identity.
- 3/19/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Leonard Cohen was a struggling poet and author living on the Greek Island of Hydra in 1960 when he first met Marianne Ihlen, the ex-wife of Norwegian author Axel Jensen. Their whirlwind romance inspired many of Cohen’s earliest love songs including, of course, the 1967 classic “So Long, Marianne.” Cohen and Ihlen separated in the Seventies without marrying or having kids, but they remained in communication for the rest of their lives. In 2016, they died within months of each other.
That fabled relationship is the subject of Nick Broomfield’s upcoming...
That fabled relationship is the subject of Nick Broomfield’s upcoming...
- 7/1/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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