Ladies and Gentleman... Mr. Leonard Cohen

This jazzy 1965 black-and-white film portrait catches the imaginative energies, lyrical and comic, of a young Leonard Cohen, the quicksilver poet, novelist and songwriter. Arguably the first and last post war romantic writer - as the voice of the questing, hedonistic, pre-feminist sixies.

On the verge of a pop stardom that would blur the boundary between song and poem, Cohen here intimately reveals the sources for his jewelled imagery of violence, yearning, despair and sexuality.

Leonard Cohen went to McGill University, where at 17 he formed a country and western trio called the Buckskin Boys, however it was his poetry that made him the darling of the local bohemian literary underground scene.