Lawrence river and part of the Expo 67 world’s fair (see Official Video For Leonard Cohen’s “In My Secret Life” Set In Montreal’s Habitat 67). The video, nominated for the 2002 Juno Best Video Award, was filmed in Montreal at Habitat 67, architect Moshe Safdie’s experimental housing complex on the shore of the St. Even though Citroën built and sold about 1.5 million of the cars, the DS remains a kind of a one-and-done, design-wise. The French structuralist Roland Barthes wrote that it was “obvious” the DS had “fallen from the sky.” But you couldn’t call it avant-garde because nobody, not even Citroën, followed in the DS’s conceptual path. While a stage prop and not a vehicle Leonard owned, the uniqueness of the Citroen DS alone would qualify it as the Leonard Cohen of automobiles.
The official In My Secret Life video, directed by Floria Sigismondi, features Leonard Cohen driving a Citroen DS (note that the car is color-coordinated with Leonard’s shirt).
All posts in this series are collected at Cars Of Leonard Cohen as they go online. Cars Of Leonard Cohen is a series of posts about actual automobiles owned by or associated with Leonard Cohen, metaphorical cars he employed in his songs, and his thoughts about cars.
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