Oh, Canada 2024 Download via Torrent

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Based on the novel “Unregarded” by Russell Banks

Leonard Fife, one of the sixty thousand black con men and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid service in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to demythologize his mythologized life.. This is the second time that Paul Schrader has directed one of Banks’ novels for the screen, following his adaptation of “Affliction” (1997).

It is a casual drama set between Virginia and Montreal in the late 1960s and 2023

Leo Fife (Jacob Elordi/Richard Gere) is a famous leftist documentary filmmaker in Canada who died 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.

But he insists that his wife Emma (Uma Thurman), also a former student, be present during the filming

We soon learn that Leo’s myth of his past as a Vietnam War resister and free-spirited traveler to Cuba is different from Leo’s current (real?) truth. Leo is a little confused, but the story he tells is one of a shallow, aimless life that has caused much pain to others, including his two ex-wives Amy (Penelope Mitchell) and Alicia (Christine Frosset) and his son Cornelius (Zach Shafer).

We learn that Leo’s flight to Canada does not live up to the myth

"O Canada" is a strange film in many ways, but it tells a fascinating story about the myths we all allow ourselves to create about ourselves. Paul Schrader’s use of multiple actors in multiple roles is confusing and unnecessary, but Richard Gere does a great job of trying to tell his truth to the woman he’s spent 30 years with.

Uma Thurman is perfect as Emma, ​​who initially resists telling Leo the truth but moves to silent acceptance

“Oh Canada” is not about avoiding the Vietnam War; instead, it’s a drama about coming to terms with your own myths.