Oh, Canada 2024 Full Movie Stream
Based on the novel 'Foregone' by Russell Banks
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Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.. This marks the second time that Paul Schrader has directed one of Banks' novels for the screen, following his adaptation of Affliction (1997)..
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024)
It's an accidental draft dodger drama between Virginia and Montreal in the late 1960s and 2023. Leo Fife (Jacob Elordi/Richard Gere) is a famous left-wing documentary filmmaker in Canada dying of cancer in 2023.
Leo allows two former students, Malcolm (Michael Imperioli) and Diana (Victoria Hill), to interview him for a CBC documentary about his life
However, he insists his wife, Emma (Uma Thurman), also a former student, be present throughout the filming.We soon learn the myth about Leo's past as an anti-Vietnam War resister and free-spirit traveler to Cuba varied from Leo's present (real?) truth. Leo is somewhat confused, but the story he tells is of a shallow, directionless life that caused much pain to others, including two former wives, Amy (Penelope Mitchell) and Alicia (Kristine Froseth), and son Cornel (Zach Shaffer).
Paul Schrader's use of several actors in multiple roles is confusing and unnecessary, but Richard Gere does a great job struggling to tell his truth to the woman with whom he's spent 30 years
We learn Leo's flight to Canada did not match the myth."Oh, Canada" is a strange film in many ways, but it tells an engaging story about the myths we all allow to be made about ourselves. Uma Thurman is good in portraying Emma as initially resisting Leo's truthtelling but moving towards quiet acceptance."Oh, Canada" is not about dodging the Vietnam War; it's instead a drama about coming to terms with one's own myths.
