The documentary *Broken English* presents Marianne Faithfull not just as a cultural relic but as a living archive of resilience and intellectual defiance. The film’s framing device—a bureaucratic "Ministry of Un-Forgetting"—serves as both a metaphor for memory’s fragility and a critique of how public figures are mythologized. By forcing Faithfull to confront her own past through interviews, tabloid clippings, and commentary from others, the directors expose the tension between personal truth and...