Listen to Me Marlon

2015
Unrated
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

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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.

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A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

YOUR RATING

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 5 wins & 21 nominations total

Self
(archive footage)

Stella Adler

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Bernardo Bertolucci

Self
(archive footage)
(voice)
(uncredited)

Michael Borne

Young Marlon Brando
(uncredited)

Marlon Brando Sr.

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Christian Brando

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(uncredited)

Dick Cavett

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Connie Chung

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Montgomery Clift

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Francis Ford Coppola

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Bette Davis

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Joel Grey

Self
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(uncredited)

Anna Kashfi

Self
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(uncredited)

Elia Kazan

Self
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(uncredited)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Martin Luther King

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Sacheen Littlefeather

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Dorothy Malone

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Director
- Stevan Riley
Writers
- Stevan Riley
- Peter Ettedgui
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Trivia
A documentary made entirely out of archive footage and Marlon Brando's own words from recordings, confessionals, and self hypnosis.

Quotes
Marlon Brando, Himself: Everything that you do - make it real as you can. Make it alive. Make it tangible. Find the truth of that moment.

Connections
Features Les Lumières de la ville (1931)

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Written by Max Richter
Performed by Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr (as Nick Carr), Ian Burdge and Chris Worsey

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Featured review

9/10

Amazing and haunting experience

Greetings from Lithuania.

I was dying to see "Listen to Me Marlon" (2015) from the first moment i heard about it. I won't lie - i'm a huge Marlon Brando fan so i was really looking forward to see a good documentary about the man himself. "Listen to Me Marlon" is a superb experience. Experience, because it is not a traditional straightforward biopic documentary. It is told by Brando himself, using audiotapes that he was recording during his life. We do get so see glimpses and most important aspects from his life from a childhood till the end. It shows a bit about the infamous movies he made. But more it is about listening to his thoughts, and they are haunting. It is like listening to extended version of Kurtz himself.

Overall, i highly enjoyed "Listen to Me Marlon". It is informative, superbly paced and very self confident and fascinating documentary. It is a haunting experience, not for everyone i guess, but if you liked the acting of this screen legend and would like to go a bit beyond the face of a man, "Listen to Me Marlon" is a must see.