Oh, Canada
Oh, Canada
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Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
Kevin Ward reviewedJanuary 30, 2025
I came away very mixed on this. Richard Gere gives an excellent performance, and I like the unreliable narrative aspect of him recounting his life. Reminded me a bit of Anthony Hopkins, in The Father. Unfortunately, I just never much connected with the story. But I wasn’t enamored with Schrader’s Man in a Room Trilogy either though so if you liked those could probably safe watching this one.