Richard Gere & Uma Thurman in Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh, Canada’ Trailer
by Alex Billington
November 7, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“I am ready for the whole lot to simply form of fall into place.” Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for Oh, Canada, the most recent movie from prolific American filmmaker Paul Schrader. He isn’t Canadian! And the movie is not actually about Canada, solely kind of. Oh, Canada premiered on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant earlier this yr, and it additionally performed at Toronto, San Sebastian, New York, and AFI Fest most just lately. Within the movie, a famed Canadian documentary filmmaker, on his final days, provides a last interview to certainly one of his former college students to inform the entire fact about his life. A confession filmed proper in entrance of his spouse… Paul Schrader’s adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel sees him reunited with Gere greater than 40 years after American Gigolo, and collectively they ship a transferring and deeply private tackle this story of an artist reflecting on a lifetime of storytelling. Richard Gere stas as Leonard Fife, together with Jacob Elordi as younger Fife, plus Uma Thurman, Victoria Hill, Michael Imperioli, Penelope Mitchell, and Kristine Froseth. This one is totally different from Schrader’s different current movies, providing a singular story a couple of filmmaker and all that he went by way of, good and dangerous, considering again on his storied life. Some might be moved by this movie, others is probably not.
This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Paul Schrader’s movie Oh, Canada, direct from YouTube:
Growing old filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), nonetheless fiery regardless of his battle with sickness, needs to inform his life story, unfiltered, earlier than it is too late. Because the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he has a lot to be happy with, however his Vietnam Struggle draft-dodging and his previous relationships harbor thorny truths. Leonard sits for an prolonged interview along with his former scholar Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid tales about his youthful self (Jacob Elordi) within the tumultuous Nineteen Sixties & past. At Leonard’s insistence, his spouse and indispensable inventive associate, Emma (Uma Thurman), bears witness to all of it. His successes are held up in opposition to his failings and, as the person is cleansed of the parable, Leonard should confront what’s left. Oh, Canada is written & directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Paul Schrader, director of the movies Blue Collar, Hardcore, American Gigolo, Cat Individuals, Gentle of Day, The Consolation of Strangers, Gentle Sleeper, Endlessly Mine, Auto Focus, Dominion: Prequel to Exorcist, The Walker, Adam Resurrected, The Canyons, The Dying of the Gentle, Canine Eat Canine, First Reformed, The Card Counter, and Grasp Gardener beforehand. Tailored type the novel “Foregone” by Russell Banks. Produced by Tiffany Boyle, David Gonzales, Meghan Hanlon, Scott LaStaiti, Luisa Legislation. This initially premiered on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant this yr. Kino Lorber will debut Oh, Canada in choose US theaters on December fifth, 2024 coming quickly. Look any good?