Fresh
Listen to Me Marlon is an offer so intimate that no film fan should refuse.
Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail
Listen to Me Marlon
Intimate. Explicit. Uninhibited.
2015 · 1h 43m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Stevan Riley
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Listen to Me Marlon
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.
Director and cast
- Stevan Riley Director
- Marlon Brando as Self (voice) (archive footage)
- Stella Adler as Self (archive footage)
- Bette Davis as Self (archive footage)
- Montgomery Clift as Self (archive footage)
- Anna Kashfi as Self (archive footage)
- Dick Cavett Cast
- Francis Ford Coppola Cast
- Konstantin Stanislavski Cast
- Burt Reynolds Cast
- Bernardo Bertolucci Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's a one-of-a-kind film about a one-of-a-kind screen legend, a man who transformed acting without ever really knowing what he thought of it.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
A fascinating and extraordinary journey.
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
Fresh
More than a Hollywood bio, Listen to Me Marlon is a story of demons being passed from one generation to the next.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It's as if Riley has ushered us into the darkened chamber of the actor's memories, where Brando himself can whisper in our ear.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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