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Kino Lorber has lifted the curtain on Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada,” debuting the primary trailer for the acclaimed filmmaker’s newest.
The movie first premiered at Cannes in Might, competing for the Palme d’Or. It has since toured the pageant season, with picks at each Toronto and New York. The solid consists of Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, Jacob Elordi, Victoria Hill and Kristine Froseth. The official synopsis for the movie reads: “Leonard Fife, certainly one of 60,000 draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to keep away from serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets and techniques to de-mythologize his mythologized life.”
“Fife is dying and realizing that his complete life has been constructed on lies and he’s making an attempt to confront himself earlier than he dies,” Schrader teased in a profile with Selection earlier this yr.
Gere performs the older Fife, a revered documentary filmmaker giving a closing testimony in an interview together with his previous college students. Elordi, featured by a sequence of flashbacks, performs the youthful model of Fife, following him by his choice to go away america.
This marks the second collaboration between Gere and Schrader. The pair final labored collectively on the acclaimed 1980 movie “American Gigolo,” a provocative drama that bolstered each of their Hollywood reputations.
“Oh, Canada” is predicated on the novel “Foregone” by Russell Banks. Schrader had beforehand tailored Banks’ 1989 novel “Affliction” into the 1997 neo-noir crime drama of the identical identify. The film is produced by David Gonzales alongside Tiffany Boyle, Luisa Regulation, Scott LaStaiti and Meghan Hanlon.
Watch the trailer beneath.
Richard Gere Reunites With Paul Schrader
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