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Death Of A Ladies’ Man
Starring Gabriel Byrne. Directed by Matthew Bissonnette. Streaming online at VIFF Connect from Friday (March 12) to May 6.
Canadian writer-director Matthew Bissonnette’s surrealistic drama a Canadian-Irish coproduction casts Gabriel Byrne as Samuel O’Shea, a McGill poetry professor in Montreal who starts experiencing vivid, thematically relevant hallucinations as the result of a malignant brain tumour.
Sometimes his dead father (Brian Gleeson) turns up for a chat. Sometimes people around him burst into song. (As the title implies, a certain Leonard Cohen album factors heavily in the storytelling.)
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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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
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.
Article content
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?