Matt Bissonnetteâs new feature
Death of a Ladiesâ Man was surely a pleasant surprise at this yearâs edition of the Galway Film Fleadh (20-25 July). This Canadian-Irish co-production, presented last September at the Calgary International Film Festival, had its international premiere at the Irish gathering.
Samuel OâShea (
Gabriel Byrne) is an Irish college professor living in Montreal, who starts experiencing a series of bizarre hallucinations, possibly enhanced by his poorly hidden alcohol addiction. One day, after a medical check, he is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and left with â at best â between a few months and one year to live. A Gabriel Byrne in a state of grace brings life to this compelling portrait of a 62-year-old womaniser and absent father trying to reconnect with his two kids, a gay hockey player (
Review: Death of a Ladies Man
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Death of a Ladiesâ Man
Gabriel Byrne (with Jessica Paré as Charlotte) plays Samuel OâShea, a professor of English literature with an insatiable taste for women and liquor, and a predictably disastrous private life.Â
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Itâs fair to say that Canadian director Matt Bissonnette is a Leonard Cohen fan. His debut feature in 2002 was called
Looking for Leonard, and now comes
Death of a Ladies Man, inspired by Cohenâs album of 1977. Iâm not quite sure how an album, or the title of an album, gets transformed into a story, but Bissonnette has made an odd, unclassifiable film that combines comedy, drama, tragedy and a musical homage to his favourite singer.