Broken English

Broken English offers a bold, unconventional portrait of Marianne Faithfull, an artist who spent more than six decades refusing to be defined by anyone’s expectations. Rather than retelling her life in a traditional documentary format, the film unfolds inside the imagined “Ministry of Not Forgetting”—a liminal space where memory, myth and personal history intertwine.

Through this inventive framework, the documentary becomes an intimate, thought‑provoking exploration of Faithfull’s journey through music, fame, survival and constant reinvention. It captures her singular voice with unflinching honesty, revealing an artist who remained fiercely creative and defiantly herself until the very end.

A final act of authorship from a true original, Broken English stands as Faithfull’s fearless swan song—poetic, uncompromising and impossible to forget.