When hard-drinking, twice-divorced professor Samuel O’Shea (Gabriel Byrne) starts seeing things—Frankenstein at the bar, strangers breaking into Leonard Cohen songs, and conversations with his long-dead father, Ben O’Shea (Brian Gleeson)—he chalks it up to stress. But a terminal brain tumor diagnosis sends him reeling into a surreal, darkly funny odyssey through memory, regret and an […]
‘Death of a Ladies Man’ honors music of Cohen in feature film

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