More than four decades after AMERICAN GIGOLO, writer-director Paul Schrader and actor Richard Gere are back together in OH, CANADA.
Fiery but feeling his years and his illness, ailing filmmaker Leonard Fife (Gere) wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of lauded documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his avoidance of the Vietnam War draft and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Finally choosing to reveal the truth and lies in his life and career, Leonard sits for an extended filmed interview with his former student Malcolm, charging ahead with candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi, SALTBURN) in the fractious 1960s and beyond. At Leonard’s insistence, his wife and indispensable partner, Emma, hears it all. Leonard’s successes are held up against his failings–the fibs held up against the facts–and as the man in full is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left. With Michael Imperioli, Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman.
“A fascinating match of director and actor, in which both seem to be trying to exorcize the demons of aging through art.” (The Daily Beast)
““As the younger Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi exudes the kind of easygoing, cocky confidence that made the Pretty Woman star a bonafide sex symbol.” (The Playlist)
“Richard Gere remains a unique camera object, with a stunning mastery of filling a close-up with an unblinking stillness conveying feelings easier left behind.” (Chicago Tribune)
“Paul Schrader’s approach to this material — it’s his second movie based on a novel by Banks, the first being “Affliction” (1998) — is fascinating; a filmmaker’s translation in every sense of the word.” (New York Times)
“”Takes on grand themes of memory, mortality, and artistic self-reckoning… to sincerely moving effect.” (The New Yorker)
Monday, December 30
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm
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OH, CANADA (Paul Schrader, 2024 / NR / 91 mins) Leonard Fife, 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.
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