Oh, Canada 2024 Download via Magnet

43/28

Based on the novel “Foregone” by Russell Banks

Leonard Fife, one of the sixty thousand deserters and draft dodgers who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to demystifying his mythologized life. This is the second time Paul Schrader has directed one of Banks’ novels for the big screen, following his adaptation of Affliction (1997).

Well, you’d be wrong

Featured on the Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024). With a cast of actors as good as Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, and Michael Imperioli, you’d think they’d have the star power to make a better movie than this.

Paul Schrader gets “experimental” in a film that feels like something a first-year film student would make

Schrader claims to have been friends with the anti-war protester/filmmaker on whose life story this film is based, but with friends like that, who needs enemies? Richard Gere’s character becomes increasingly unlikable, gradually losing the ability to express himself with words as he rages at everyone around him, muttering as he descends into darkness.

In other words, he becomes what Paul Schrader is today

Do yourself a favor and skip this, even on streaming I can’t imagine it being better if you could pause it and leave the room to do more important things than watch this sad excuse for a movie.