Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

United States

2005

105 Min

Color, Black and White

1.78:1

English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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EXEC Kevin L. Beggs, Sarah Greenberg, Erik Nelson, Tim Palen, Sandra Stern

PROD Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, Lian Lunson

DP John Pirozzi, Geoffrey Hall

CAST Leonard Cohen, Martha Wainwright, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Perla Batalla, Julie Christensen, Antony Hegarty, The Handsome Family, The Edge, Bono

MUSIC Leonard Cohen

Toronto (TIFF in Concert), Berlinale (Panorama Dokument), Sundance (Spectrum)

Synopsis

Legendary poet, singer/songwriter and alleged ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his L.A. home about his extraordinary life and times, interspersed with old footage from his private photo collection and lavish praise, plus elaborately performed Cohen cover songs from a motley crew of colleague musicians; Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and U2’s Bono and The Edge. By way of dessert the latter two and their band mates even get to back up the man for a special performance of his own. —IMDB

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Jaspar Lamar Crabb

17Mar12

If Antony singing IF IT BE YOUR WILL doesn't move you, check your pulse

msmichel

16Nov11

A fairly good performance film of a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen shot in Sydney in 2005 made more interesting by commentary and clips by/of Mr. Cohen himself. Good mix of performers with Antony, Martha Wainwright and Julie Christensen coming off best. Interesting comment by Cohen musing about touring again some years before the amazing tour that followed that put every performance in this film to shame.

Charles Deckert

29Jun11

That's the interesting thing about what people do and say and how they're viewed aside from what they say and do. You could either interpret it as him "getting in touch" with a Jewish figure, or perhaps he has a genuine fondness for the guy. Either way, it's a good question.