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Or as Cohen himself sang in that fond farewell tune, “I’m standing on a ledge and your fine spider web/ is fastening my ankle to a stone.”Ĭutting together sun-dappled, dreamy home movies (some shot by the director’s mentor D.A. As happens so often in show business, the lure of women and the road soon became too much for their relationship to bear. (Courtesy Roadside Attractions)īut all idylls must eventually end, and this one busted up badly when our melancholy poet rather accidentally became a folk music superstar. He even became something of a father figure to young Axel, Ihlen’s troubled son from a previous marriage. In old interviews Cohen warmly reminisces about writing his novel “Beautiful Losers” zonked on acid while muse Marianne dutifully brought him sandwiches. Hydra is fondly recalled as a free-love free-for-all - an enchanted enclave where beautiful young people frolicked and fornicated in a druggy, sun-kissed stupor. Their affair famously inspired Cohen to write "So Long, Marianne" - the loveliest and most wistful of all breakup songs, and that is indeed a picture of Ihlen playfully pecking at a typewriter on the back cover of his second album, 1969’s “Songs from a Room.”įor a while, we’re told, they lived in domestic tranquility on this island paradise surrounded by expat artists and psychedelic seekers. How sad and unfulfilling must be the life of a muse? Granted, this is probably not the intended takeaway from Nick Broomfield’s dewy-eyed new documentary “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love.” With rhapsodic reverence, the film chronicles an intense, unsustainable romance between Leonard Cohen and Norwegian single mom Marianne Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra during the swinging-est summers of the swinging ‘60s. Facebook Email Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen.