Benedict Matthew Bissonnette, usually credited as Matt Bissonnette, is a Canadian film director and writer.
[Randall King, "Laughing in the face of death: Humour, absurdity bring a light touch to bleak, Cohen-inspired Irish-Canadian drama". '']Winnipeg Free Press
The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (or WFP; founded as the ''Manitoba Free Press'') is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well ...
'', March 12, 2021.
Bissonnette and his childhood friend Steven Clark collaborated as codirectors and cowriters of the 2002 film ''
Looking for Leonard''. On his own, Bissonnette followed up with the films ''
Who Loves the Sun
''Who Loves the Sun'' is a 2006 Canadian film directed and written by Matt Bissonnette and starring Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott, R.H. Thomson, and Wendy Crewson.Alison Gillmor, "Characters confront the past in cottage country". ''Wi ...
'' in 2006, ''
Passenger Side
''Passenger Side'' is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Matt Bissonnette and produced by Corey Marr.John Griffin, "Great music and dialogue as a contact sport; passenger side Ex-N.D.G.er Matt Bissonnette directs a winning road movie". ''Mo ...
'' in 2009,
[John Griffin, "Great music and dialogue as a contact sport; passenger side Ex-N.D.G.er Matt Bissonnette directs a winning road movie". '']Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...
'', October 9, 2009. and ''
Death of a Ladies' Man'' in 2020.
[
Bissonnette's films frequently use the literary or musical work of ]Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...
as a thematic motif; ''Looking for Leonard'' centred in part on a character's fantasies of escaping her life to run away with Cohen after reading his novel ''Beautiful Losers
''Beautiful Losers'' is the second and final novel by Canadian writer an