{"id":487591,"date":"2019-07-01T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=854131"},"modified":"2019-07-01T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:20:04","slug":"watch-exclusive-clip-from-new-leonard-cohen-documentary-marianne-and-leonard-words-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-exclusive-clip-from-new-leonard-cohen-documentary-marianne-and-leonard-words-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Exclusive Clip From New Leonard Cohen Documentary \u2018Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Leonard-Cohen.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/leonard-cohen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leonard-cohen\" data-tag=\"leonard-cohen\">Leonard Cohen<\/a> was a struggling poet and author living on the Greek Island of Hydra in 1960 when he first met Marianne Ihlen, the ex-wife of Norwegian author Axel Jensen. Their whirlwind romance inspired many of Cohen\u2019s earliest love songs including, of course, the 1967 classic \u201cSo Long, Marianne.\u201d Cohen and Ihlen separated in the Seventies without marrying or having kids, but they remained in communication for the rest of their lives. In 2016, they died within months of each other.<\/p>\n<p>That fabled relationship is the subject of Nick Broomfield\u2019s upcoming documentary <em>Marianne &amp; Leonard: Words of Love<\/em>, which chronicles their long relationship and the divergent paths they took once it concluded. It opens at theaters across America this month.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive clip, Cohen, years after parting ways with Ihlen, reflects on the meaning of love. \u201cLove is that activity that makes the power of man and woman,\u201d he says, \u201cThat incorporates it into your own heart, when you can embody man and woman, when you can embody hell and heaven, when you can reconcile and contain, when man and woman becomes your content. In other words, when your women becomes your own content and you become her content, that\u2019s love. And you recognize the full equality of that exchange because if she\u2019s smaller than you, she can\u2019t fill you. And if you\u2019re larger than her, you can\u2019t fill her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Cohen learned that Ihlen was rapidly dying of Leukemia in 2016, he wrote her a letter. \u201cWell Marianne it\u2019s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon,\u201d he wrote. \u201cKnow that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. And you know that I\u2019ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don\u2019t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/leonard-cohen-documentary-854131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Cohen was a struggling poet and author living on the Greek Island of Hydra in 1960 when he first met Marianne Ihlen, the ex-wife of Norwegian author Axel Jensen. Their whirlwind romance inspired many of Cohen\u2019s earliest love songs including, of course, the 1967 classic \u201cSo Long, Marianne.\u201d Cohen and Ihlen separated in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 02:38:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}