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Marianne Faithfull is remembered as one of the most daring voices of the 1960s, but in a new documentary she offers an unflinching look at the chaos that often swirled around her, including a night Faithfull, who passed away earlier this year<\/a>, took LSD<\/a> just before she gave a now-infamous interview.<\/p>\n The story emerges in Broken English, a tribute that premieres August 30 at the Venice Film Festival, seven months after Faithfull\u2019s death at age 78.<\/p>\n Directed by Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth, the film<\/a> traces her journey following her tragic death<\/a>, with Oscar<\/a>-winning Tilda Swinton guiding viewers through archival footage and fresh reflections.<\/p>\n Faithfull recounts that her candor in the press was sometimes fueled by excess.<\/p>\n “The night before I did this interview, Mick and I had taken LSD, and maybe that affected me,” she says in the film, adding that her outspoken opinions “caused a lot of trouble, that I talked too much, too openly, and eventually what happened was that they came down on us.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Structured like an extended This Is Your Life, the film includes new interviews by actor George MacKay and performances of her songs by guest artists.<\/p>\n Beth Orton revisits As Tears Go By, Suki Waterhouse takes on Sister Morphine, and Courtney Love joins Thurston Moore and members of Portishead and My Bloody Valentine for a raw version of Time\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n Archival clips also show a teenage Faithfull seated beside Bob Dylan in D.A. Pennebaker\u2019s 1967 documentary Don\u2019t Look Back.<\/p>\n Asked years later about that moment, she quipped, \u201cHe was coming on to me\u2026 If I had a dollar for every cute man who\u2019s told me, \u2018This song, this poem is about you, darling,\u2019 I\u2019d be rich.\u201d<\/p>\n The film closes on a poignant note. Swinton announces that Faithfull died before production wrapped, but not before recording one last performance.<\/p>\n She appears without breathing tubes, singing her 2018 song Misunderstanding alongside Nick Cave on piano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marianne Faithfull is remembered as one of the most daring voices of the 1960s, but in a new documentary she offers an unflinching look at the chaos that often swirled around her, including a night Faithfull, who passed away earlier this year, took LSD just before she gave a now-infamous interview. The story emerges in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1989071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[358883,317655,358882,356013,305352,320223],"class_list":["post-1989070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-broken-english-documentary","tag-drugs","tag-lsd","tag-marianne-faithfull","tag-mick-jagger","tag-rolling-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Marianne-Faithfull-recalls-taking-LSD-with-Rolling-Stones-Mick-Jagger.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}