‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’: Film Review | Venice 2021

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Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine's documentary, playing the festival circuit in Venice and Telluride, looks at the life of Leonard Cohen and the life of his iconic song 'Hallelujah.'

— arriving on the semi-recent heels of Lian Lunson’s— has a better grasp of the artist’s ineffable appeal than most, and a smarter approach. The documentary contains elements of a conventional biopic, but it probably won’t satisfy audiences looking for a soup-to-nuts overview.

I think you need the biographical approach in order to see the contradictions and evolutions of “Hallelujah,” a song that took Cohen at least seven years to write, spawned notebook after notebook of scrawled verses and then split into versions characterized separately by spiritualism and sexuality — two of the many competing interests within Cohen’s work.

 

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