‘Hallelujah’ Review: From Leonard Cohen to Cale to Buckley to Shrek - The New York Times

A new documentary tells the entwined stories of a songwriter and his best-known composition.

Hallelujah is his great anthem of religious ecstasy and sexual longing. Some versions emphasize the sacred, while others dwell on what another poet called the expense of spirit in a waste of shame. A… [+1772 chars]

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