The jazzy 1965 black-and-white film portrait catches the imaginative energies, lyrical and comic, of a young Leonard Cohen, the quicksilver poet, novelist and song-writer.

Designed, written and co-directed by Donald Brittaon, this witty film classic presents Leonard Cohen - arguably the first and last romantic writer in English Canada - as the voice of the questing, hedonistic, pre-feminist sixties.

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