Title: I wanted to love this
Review: I did. I wanted to love this, because Leonard Cohen is the real deal, a poet who works long and hard to produce songs of transcendent loveliness and knowingness. But the reality of it--the Wainwright family and the McGarrigles, and even Nick Cave--is that the singers here have far too much reverence for the material to make it come alive in performance. Except for Cohen himself, but he appears as a performer for only a few minutes. The performances, even by Beth Orton, are just too precious for words. I'd like to see this done again, only this time with Iggy and the Stooges as the main performers. Then we might get some sense of the vitality of Cohen's work.
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