Post by joem on Aug 18, 2019 22:02:59 GMT
For anyone interested at all in the work of Leonard Cohen this documentary on current release is a must.
As a convert of some thirty years standing to Cohen's music I was always going to go to this but, independently of that caveat, I was intrigued to see how they would build the relationship between Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, the Norwegian woman Cohen met in the sixties on the Greek island of Hydra, into one of the great affairs of our time. Myth-making is how history is created, and we seldom stop to think of the notion that our everyday will be someone else's history.
Knowing what I knew of their story I didn't think the film-makers would succeed in their efforts - the romance has a great beginning and end but no middle section - and I suspect I was right. But it is still a great romance told powerfully and, to my astonishment, there were people sobbing in the cinema when the lights went on.
As a convert of some thirty years standing to Cohen's music I was always going to go to this but, independently of that caveat, I was intrigued to see how they would build the relationship between Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, the Norwegian woman Cohen met in the sixties on the Greek island of Hydra, into one of the great affairs of our time. Myth-making is how history is created, and we seldom stop to think of the notion that our everyday will be someone else's history.
Knowing what I knew of their story I didn't think the film-makers would succeed in their efforts - the romance has a great beginning and end but no middle section - and I suspect I was right. But it is still a great romance told powerfully and, to my astonishment, there were people sobbing in the cinema when the lights went on.