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reir: Nick Broomfield. 12A cert, 102 min
Sun, sea, free love and songs of regret: the Greek island of Hydra, where Leonard Cohen bought a small house in 1960, sounds like a sweet dream for expatriate artists this decade. It was also an idyll that would end up crying. "When you've lived on Hydra, you can not live anywhere else, including Hydra," said Cohen. It was there that he first met his muse and lover, Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian woman previously married with a six-month-old son, named after her father, writer Axel Jensen.
Vulnerable Marianne and Leonard, then little known, quickly fell in love. She would be the dedicatee of Cohen's collection of poems, Flowers for Hitler, and her ornate photo …
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