Marianne Faithfull died in January last year at the age of 78, but before she left us she made a final film, Broken English, a docu-drama in which she looks back at her incredible life and long career. It certainly sounds like it takes a different approach to the standard career overview documentary. In the film, Tilda Swinton plays the leader of an organisation called The Ministry Of Not Forgetting, which plays the real Faithfull clips and excerpts from her life – from playing Ophelia in Tony Richardson’s film version of Hamlet, to footage of her singing As Tears Go By in 1965, to more recent material from this century.
