Published on, Sept. 2 -- September 2, 2025 12:39 AM

The life and career of British singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull are reappraised at the Venice Film Festival in "Broken English", a movie that mixes documentary and fiction in an effort to redress her often distorted public image.

"Marianne was an artist's artist but public perception had been frozen and been stuck. And I think that were it left to AI, broken data is just going to stay broken," said Jane Pollard who co-directed with fellow British filmmaker Iain Forsyth.

Often remembered as simply the former girlfriend of Mick Jagger, despite having released over 30 albums in her own right, Faithfull is portrayed through a series of interviews conducted in the years leading up to h...