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Thoughts And Prayers
The holy, the horny and the Shrek: a movie about that song and the man who wrote it.
By Sylvie Simmons.
Nothing left but faith: Leonard Cohen glimpses his afterlife; (left) Cohen-ologists Jeff Buckley and Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman.
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Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
★★★★ Dir: Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS. C/ST
“I FEEL I HAVE career ahead of me,” says Leonard Cohen in one of the well-chosen a huge posthumous clips from old interviews that turn the late singer-writer-poet (who declined to be interviewed) into the narrator of this two-hour film. It was probably said with irony, referring to how little respect and attention he got during much of his music career in the US, where he lived. But he was right about having a busy afterlife. Since passing away in 2016 – at the top of his game thanks to those remarkable late-life tours – he’s released a posthumous hit album, a poetry collection and a novel, and been the subject of a slew of books and two documentaries.