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- Be Water
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- Be Water
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Summary Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
Directed By: Paul Schrader
Written By: Russell Banks, Paul Schrader
- Be Water
- 1 h 31 m
- Be Water
- 1 h 31 m
Oh, Canada
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Summary Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
Directed By: Paul Schrader
Written By: Russell Banks, Paul Schrader
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
59
47% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
47% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Schrader’s gaze is patient — tired, almost. He frames Gere’s aged face in tight close-ups, and it is as if we are seeing him for the first time, wrinkled and ragged and oh so very beautiful.
Oh, Canada might be a movie that was conceived in the long dark night of the soul, but it moves towards brightness and possibility.
Even by the director’s meditative standards, this one cuts close to the bone.
Oh, Canada is a more reflective work from Paul Schrader with plenty on its mind that still falls short of his best works.
A movie that is neither Schrader’s best work nor his most scandalous.
Schrader adapts the 2021 novel Foregone by Russell Banks into his own specific creation, and one that leaves viewers dizzied and lost by the chopped-up melancholy of it all.
Schrader is a million miles from the potent anguish of First Reformed, the 2017 film that won him an Oscar; rather, this nearly rivals his 2013 erotic thriller The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lohan, for bewildering tedium.
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