“Oh, Canada” — written and directed by Paul Schrader — features an award-winning all-star cast, including Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli and Jacob Elordi.
Legendary filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) — still a force to be reckoned with despite his age and declining health — wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he is a political hero to many, but his past harbors dark secrets and thorny truths.
Leonard agrees to sit for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the tumultuous 1960s and beyond. At Leonard’s insistence, his wife and artistic partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), bears witness to it all. His successes are held up against his failings and, as the man is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left.
More than 40 years after “American Gigolo”, writer-director Paul Schrader reunites with Richard Gere for this moving and deeply personal tale of an artist reflecting on a lifetime of storytelling.
"Paul Schrader and Richard Gere, reunited for the first time since 1980’s ‘American Gigolo’, are at the peak of their powers." — Chuck Bowen, Slant
"Takes on grand themes of memory, mortality, and artistic self-reckoning … to sincerely moving effect." — Justin Chang, The New Yorker