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Based on the novel Foregone by Russell Banks
Story
Leonard Fife, one of the sixty thousand draft dodgers and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets in an attempt to demythologize his mythological life. This is the second time Paul Schrader has helmed one of Banks’ projects. novel to screen, after the adaptation in Verijäljet (1997).
Leo allows two exes
Link to Fil Junk podcast: Episode 961: Into a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024). This is a random sketch drama set between Virginia and Montreal in the late 1960s and early 2023. Leo Fife (Jacob Elordi/Richard Gere) is a famous left-wing documentary filmmaker in Canada who is dying of cancer in 2023.
was different from the current (true?) truth about Leo
students Malcolm (Michael Imperioli) and Diana (Victoria Hilla) interview him for a CBC documentary about his life. However, he insists that his wife Emma (Uma Thurman), also a former student, be included in the filming. We soon learn the myth of Leo’s past as a Vietnam War resistance fighter and free-spirited traveler to Cuba.
We learn that Leo’s flight to Canada was not in keeping with the myth
Leo is a bit confused, but the story he tells is of a shallow, directionless life that caused much pain to others, including his two ex-wives Amy (Penelope Mitchell) and Alicia (Kristine Froseth) and his son Cornell. (Zach Shaffer). “Oh, Canada” is an odd film in many ways, but it tells a compelling story about the myths we all allow ourselves to create.
“Oh, Canada” wasn’t about avoiding the Vietnam War; instead, it’s a drama about reckoning with its myths
Paul Schrader’s use of multiple actors in different roles is confusing and unnecessary, but Richard Gere does a great job of trying to tell his truth to the woman he spent 30 years with. Uma Thurman perfectly portrays Emma as initially opposed to Leo telling the truth but moving toward quiet acceptance.
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