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A lot of movies riff on Leonard Cohen but they’re rarely as interesting as the Godfather of Gloom’s work. On one side, you have Sarah Polley’s
Take this Waltz, a romantic drama set to and enhanced by Cohen’s music. On the opposite corner you have self-serving documentaries like
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love in which director Nick Broomfield manages to make their epic story all about himself.
Death of a Ladies’ Man is at least its own beast. This mildly compelling character piece with surrealistic overtones revolves around a Leonard Cohen-like character, Samuel O’Shea (Gabriel Byrne). A poetry teacher who’s a bit of a cad and a full-blown alcoholic, O’Shea is going through a rough patch: his second wife has left him, his job doesn’t fulfill him and, perhaps more pressingly, he’s hallucinating and not in the fun way.
It may not be the equal of the bard s best works, but then again, what is?
Author of the article: Chris Knight
Publishing date: Mar 12, 2021 • March 12, 2021 • 3 minute read • Dip the light fantastic: Gabriel Byrne and Jessica Paré in Death of a Ladies Man. Photo by Mongrel Media
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The better the movie’s music, the better the movie had better be. Does that make sense? It’s the reason there has never been a truly great Beatles jukebox musical – how do you live up to those songs?
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Leonard Cohen references in the movies of Matthew Bissonnette are not unusual. In 2009′s
Passenger Side, the song
Suzanne plays during a drive along California’s Pacific Coast Highway. In Bissonnette’s debut feature, a character reads the Cohen novel
Beautiful Losers. That film is called
Check out the new DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming shows (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Disney+, Acorn TV and more) coming out this week, including the comedy
Yes Day starring Jennifer Garner and the drama
Death of a Ladies’ Man starring Gabriel Byrne. ~Alexandra Heilbron
Yes Day – Always feeling like they have to say “no” to their kids, Allison (Jennifer Garner) and Carlos Torres (Edgar Ramírez) decide to give their three children a “Yes Day,” during which the kids have 24 hours to make the rules. The next morning starts off easily, but as the day goes on, they find it more and more difficult to keep up with their children. Wanting to make a difference in their children’s lives, Allison and Carlos decide to go all in, leading to a day filled with hijinks. Debuts on Netflix March 12.
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