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Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Who’s Faced Death
Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s latest as two versions of a dying filmmaker reckoning with a lifetime of regret.
If Paul Schrader’s most recent films have made a meme out of the image of a solitary man sitting in an empty room and writing in a journal, then his latest flips that idea on its head. “And if your past is a lie, then you cease to exist.” This is not a solitary individual in a spare, lonely room: Fife is on camera, surrounded by lights and microphones, and although he is clearly unwell, he’s agreed to the interview because he believes it will give him a chance finally to be honest. The once Adonis-like Gere, so gorgeous and opaque in Schrader’s American Gigolo, released 44 years ago, here makes for an engagingly pissy guide through Fife’s current physical challenges and his lifetime of passive regret.
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