Listen to Me Marlon
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.
September 30, 1934 in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India
7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
15 February 1914, Seattle, Washington, USA
December 29, 1941 in Anau District, Bora Bora, French Polynesia
16 December 1938, Tokyo, Japan
20 November 1925, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
5 April 1908, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
January 31, 1914 in Merchantville, New Jersey, USA
11 February 1936, Lansing, Michigan, USA
April 25, 1908 in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
19 November 1936, Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
7 April 1939, Detroit, Michigan, USA
20 August 1946, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
14 October 1927, Stockwell, London, England, UK
February 10, 1901 in New York City, New York, USA
1 September 1923, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
11 April 1932, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
28 September 1901, New York City, New York, USA
August 8, 1921 in Inglewood, California, USA
16 March 1941, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
November 14, 1946 in Salinas, California, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
17 October 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
3 April 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
29 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 29, 2016
There are plenty of posthumous profile pieces, of course, but Listen to Me Marlon is unique in that the dearly departed is the only one permitted to speak. It's more of a séance than a documentary.
March 21, 2016
This is a fascinating, often skilfully made film that will attract anyone with a passing interest in the legend.
August 13, 2015
It's as if Riley has ushered us into the darkened chamber of the actor's memories, where Brando himself can whisper in our ear.
May 03, 2016
It's a mesmerising look at one of the greats who was, finally and for all that, just a man.
August 13, 2015
It's a thoroughly subjective and effective attempt to capture how it must have felt to be Marlon Brando.
September 25, 2015
It's a one-of-a-kind film about a one-of-a-kind screen legend, a man who transformed acting without ever really knowing what he thought of it.
March 14, 2016
Though Brando's life has been catalogued ad nauseum in countless biographies, Mr Riley's film provides a greater insight into his personality and talent for the simple reason that we hear it from the horse's mouth.
August 27, 2015
More than a Hollywood bio, Listen to Me Marlon is a story of demons being passed from one generation to the next.
May 02, 2017
Much is hinted at, then skipped over. But Brando at least leaves us feeling there were real depths there: the angst was genuine, he took his art seriously.
September 25, 2015
Listen to Me Marlon is an offer so intimate that no film fan should refuse.
