‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’
How did an unknown song from a commercial flop of an album go on to become one of the most covered, most beloved, and most revered songs of all-time? That is the story at the center of Hallelujah, a new documentary film tracing the origins of the 1984 Leonard Cohen masterpiece. The song’s been covered by just about everyone who has picked up a microphone in the last 40 years, from legends like Jeff Buckley and Bob Dylan to unlikely crooners like Shrek (not to mention every fourth-rate singer on American Idol and The Voice). No matter how “pitchy” the singer, though, the song’s dizzying, intertwining themes revolving around the spiritual and the sexual will continue to fascinate listeners for many, many years to come.