Marianne Faithfull Stars in the New England Premiere of ‘Irina Palm’

April 20th, 2008 admin

Belmont, Mass. - Belmont World Film’s seventh annual international films series, “The Other Side” wraps up at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday April 13, with the New England premiere of “Irina Palm” at the Studio Cinema in Belmont (376 Trapelo Road). The British, German, French, Luxembourgian, and Belgian co-production stars rock and roll diva Marianne Faithfull, and features English actress Jenny Agutter (“An American Werewolf in London,” “Walkabout”). The film is Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity and language.

Directed by Sam Garbarski (Rashevski’s Tango), the film premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival. In the film Marianne Faithfull stars as a middle-aged widow desperate to raise money for her grandson’s medical bills. After numerous potential employers tell her that she is not qualified for any jobs, she wanders hopelessly through London’s SOHO district, until she sees a sign for a hostess job in a sex club, changing her life in ways she never expected.

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A moment with … Marianne Faithfull, singer and actor

April 20th, 2008 admin

Marianne Faithfull’s career as an actor began with playing Ophelia to Nicol Williamson’s “Hamlet.” Her boyfriend of the time, Mick Jagger, reportedly attended every performance. She later appeared with Jagger in Kenneth Anger’s “Lucifer Rising” and had a hit with a cover of his song, “As Tears Go By.”
In the 1980s she released one of rock’s seminal albums, “Broken English,” the candor of which made her a feminist heroine. She has recently appeared in several films, including “Marie Antoinette” and “Paris je t’aime.” Her newest is “Irina Palm,” in which she plays a middle-age frump who takes a temporary job in the sex industry to raise money for her grandson’s medical care. It opens Friday for a one-week run at the Varsity.

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Marianne Faithfull on ‘Irina Palm’ and Her Five Lovely Daughters

March 31st, 2008 admin

British rock vet Marianne Faithfull is back on the big screen with a plum new role. In Sam Garbarski’s tragicomedy Irina Palm, which opens tonight, she stars as a desperate grandmother who takes a gig doling out anonymous hand jobs (through a hole in the wall of a sex club) in an effort to raise funds to save her dying grandson. It could have all been terribly depressing, but the movie’s sweet, subtle charm landed it critical raves overseas — most notably at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was nominated for the prestigious Golden Bear. Faithfull took time during a recent European tour to talk about the role, her own worst job experiences, and that most dreaded of sex-worker afflictions, “Penis Elbow.”

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Marianne Faithfull plays it against type in ‘Irina Palm’

March 31st, 2008 admin

MARIANNE Faithfull has lived many lives and barely survived some of them. Plucked from a crowded party in 1964 by the Rolling Stones’ manager, who called her an angel with a robust physique, she hit the pop charts with a dulcet version of the Stones’ “As Tears Go By” and soon thereafter entered into a very public relationship with Mick Jagger. In the years that followed, she played many parts: muse, junkie, trailblazer, icon. In “Irina Palm,” Faithfull tries a new and unexpected role: prude.

Faithfull plays Maggie, a 60-ish, small-town widow who becomes desperate for money when her beloved grandson falls ill. Short of marketable skills, she spies a “hostess wanted” placard in a Soho shop window and tromps gamely through the door, evidently overlooking the sign reading “Sexy World.”

Inside, the club’s owner, played by Serbian actor Miki Manojlovic, explains that the hostess job has less to do with making tea than pleasuring his patrons. Maggie is slow to grasp what sort of place she’s stumbled into and repulsed when she finally does. But her determination does not falter. After noting her soft hands, the owner decides to put her to work as part of Sexy World’s star attraction: an unadorned hole in the wall through which client and sex worker meet without ever coming face to face.

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Marianne Faithfull

March 12th, 2008 admin

Birth Name
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull

Height
5′ 5″ (1.65 m)

Mini Biography

Daughter of Eva, the Baroness Erisso, and Major Glynn Faithfull, a WWII British spy. Recorded the first song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “As Tears Go By” (1964). Involved in a major drug scandal with Jagger, Richards and others, which ultimately turned public opinion favorably towards the ‘Rolling Stones’ and other rock groups. In the 70’s she became addicted to heroin and was homeless in London’s SoHo district for a couple of years. Recorded numerous albums in the 80’s, while struggling with cocaine and alcohol. Has remained sober and productive since.

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Brit Rock Star Marianne Faithfull To Meet Her Fans In Istanbul

March 9th, 2008 admin

 Faithfull, who met press members in Istanbul on Monday, said she first visited Istanbul five years ago for a jazz festival but she remembers good things about this city.

62-year-old rock singer said she might have been a little bit slow now, but does not think of retirement and can be on stage for ten years more.

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