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   Jul 29, 2021 - Norwegian filmmaker Jan Christian Mollestad was a good friend of Marianne Ihlen — the woman who inspired Leonard Cohen's "So long, Marianne." Mollestad was with her during her final days. And he read her a letter written by Cohen himself.

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   Aug 2, 2016 · Jan Christian Mollestad is currently completing a biographical film about Marianne. “Marianne slept slowly out of this life yesterday evening. Totally at ease, surrounded by close friends ...

4. www.thejc.com › culture › filmWhy Leonard Cohen said ‘So long, Marianne’ - The Jewish Chronicle

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   Jul 24, 2019 · Before she died, Ihlen’s close friend, Jan Christian Mollestad, contacted Cohen, letting him know that she didn’t have long left. Cohen, who’d spent years in a Buddhist monastery before re ...

5. www.irishtimes.com › culture › musicSo long, Marianne: Leonard Cohen writes to muse just before ...

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   Aug 7, 2016 · Sun Aug 07 2016 - 10:50. Leonard Cohen penned a poignant final letter to his dying muse Marianne Ihlen, a longtime friend of hers revealed on Canadian radio. Ihlen, whom Cohen wrote about in So ...

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   Aug 8, 2016 · A close friend of Marianne Ihlen, the one-time romantic partner of Leonard Cohen who inspired two of the Canadian troubadour’s most enduring songs—”So Long, Marianne” and “Bird on the Wire”—revealed the contents of a letter the singer sent to his former muse upon hearing of her impending death last week. Documentarian Jan ...

7. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › p0441stcLeonard Cohen's farewell letter to Marianne - BBC

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   Aug 8, 2016 · Just before she died, a good friend of hers, Jan Christian Mollestad, contacted Cohen to tell him that his muse was dying. (Photo: Leonard Cohen. Credit: Deigo Tuson / Getty Images)

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   • Norwegian filmmaker Jan Christian Mollestad was a good friend of Marianne Ihlen — the woman who inspired Leonard Cohen's "So long, Marianne." Mollestad was with her during her final days. And he read her a letter written by Cohen himself.

   So long, Marianne. Leonard Cohen's final letter to his muse

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   How did Jan Christian Mollestad meet Leonard?

   • Jan Christian Mollestad: I met her while I was making a documentary film about her first husband, who was a very famous Norwegian writer. We went to Hydra, the same place they went on their first big trip but as we got closer to Hydra, more and more of the talk was about Leonard because her husband deserted her right after the birth of their son.

   So long, Marianne. Leonard Cohen's final letter to his muse

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   What did Mollestad say when he read 'stretch your hand'?

   • See you down the road. Endless love and gratitude. Your Leonard.” Though Mollestad may have remembered the phrasing slightly inaccurately, he recalled Ihlan’s response to Cohen’s words: “When I read the lines ‘stretch our your hand,’ she stretched out her hand. Only two days later she lost consciousness and slipped into death.

   The beautifully devastating final letter Leonard Cohen wrote to his muse…

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   Oct 12, 2023 · Cohen kept writing to and about Ihlen until her death from leukaemia in 2016. As her friend, Jan Christian Mollestad, recalled in an interview with CBC, Ihlen asked him to contact Cohen. “I went home and I sent him a letter telling him that, unfortunately, it seems like Marianne only has a few days to live,” he recalled, “It took only two ...