A new documentary explores the song 'Hallelujah,' which took Leonard Cohen years to write and would eventually go on to become a new standard.
Directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, the documentaryis exactly as billed, an examination of the singer-songwriter’s now-classic composition, which took Cohen years to complete; was on an album initially turned down by his record label; and, over the years, became a new standard. The film is in limited release now.wrote, “Cohen wasn’t one to offer comfort.
The way he labored over the song is of a piece with the years he would take between albums, and ‘Hallelujah’ itself encapsulates the way the solemn and the sensuous could each find a home in the same Cohen song. His pop-star makeover, from early in his career to later in life, was as unlikely as the song itself becoming part of the 20th century song canon.
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