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Says one blogger: "If you're at all a Cohen fan, you've got to see "I'm Your Man." Directed by Australia's Lian Lunson ("Willie Nelson Down Home") and built around the 2005 "Came So Far for Beauty" tribute concert at the Sydney Opera House, the movie features both stirring and quizzical performances. But it's fortified with excerpts from a biographical interview with Cohen, as well as testimonials from many of the performers as to his genius."

If you're too young to know about the enigmatic, poetic, mysterious Leonard Cohen, you will either enjoy this fascinating music documentary introduction into the landscapre of Cohen or be perplexed by it. It's like a fine perfume or cologne, you are either seduced by the scent or indifferent to it.

We personally find Cohen the rarest of combinations -- a poet and musician. Like Dylan, his voice wouldn't probably make the choir, but both of them move you in a way that masters the power of music.

While Dylan is best known for his cerebral and political poems, Cohen is the balladeer of the penumbra world of love, loss, mysteries of faith, doubt, and romance. Cohen elevates the details of emotion into lyrical art form.

He was born Jewish in Montreal, wrote fiction, then turned to music. His latest passion has been Zen Buddhism.

Cohen never went the route of the celebrity. He is much too profound, and has, for his 72 years, been on a personal journey that spurns such attention.

So, it is a privilege to see a film about him that allows you to get some sense of the man, even if he remains endlessly elusive, perhaps, he would admit, even to himself.

All but one of the performances are by musicians paying tribute to Cohen.

Appropriately, Cohen's turn to sing comes in a collaboration with a band of worshipful admirers, U2.

For us, Cohen reaches down to parts of our soul that we didn't know were there. But we understand that some people might just find him fey.

You can find out much more about the DVD at its official website: http://www.leonardcohenimyourman.com/

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