Trama

A carousing college professor's life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surreal hallucinations and learns he may not be long for this world.

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 unexpected romance. Retreating to his family's remote Irish cottage, Samuel tries to write the novel he's always avoided-and instead begins rewriting his own story. Infused with the music and spirit of Leonard Cohen, Death of a Ladies' Man is a poetic, emotionally charged dramedy from writer-director Matt Bissonnette, featuring Byrne in an award-winning performance that dances between heartbreak, absurdity, and hope.