Jacob Elordi and Richard Gere play the identical man within the upcoming film Oh, Canada.
The star-studded drama is written and directed by Paul Schrader (First Reformed) and tailored from the ebook Foregone by Russell Banks. In it, legendary filmmaker Leonard Fife (Gere) units out to inform his sordid life story in his dying days.
Determined to be heard, Leonard agrees to do an interview along with his former pupil Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), by which he recollects tales of his youthful self (Elordi) whereas demanding his spouse Emma (Uma Thurman) keep at his aspect.
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“His successes are held up in opposition to his failings and, as the person is cleansed of the parable, Leonard should confront what’s left,” the synopsis teases.
Within the trailer, shared completely with PEOPLE, Malcolm says that his documentary will document Leonard’s life from “his arrival in Canada as a draft refugee by your profession as a filmmaker.”
Starting, Leonard takes them again to 1968 in West Virginia, the place his youthful self is anticipating a child along with his companion. However whereas the growing older man continues, his story grows convoluted as he floats by his completely different romantic trysts and instances of his life.
“He’s mixing issues collectively,” Malcolm factors out to Emma and his crew. “Recollections, movies, fantasies, different folks’s tales.”
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Parallels between the present Leonard and his youthful self are made all through the trailer, displaying Elordi and Gere in equivalent lighting, poses and places, because the character struggles by his recollections and inflicts ache and confusion on his family members.
“When you haven’t any future, all you’ve got left is your previous,” Leonard says in a voiceover on the finish of the trailer.
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The intimate film sees Schrader and Gere reuniting for the primary time for the reason that seminal work American Gigolo in 1980, after which the writer-director went on to helm films Gentle Sleeper and First Reformed whereas Gere discovered success within the romantic comedy drama with Fairly Girl.
Previous to Oh, Canada, Schrader tailored Banks’ 1989 novel Affliction right into a film starring Sissy Spacek, James Coburn and Willem Defoe.
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The brand new work had its U.S. premiere on the New York Movie Competition in October the place Thurman shared her pleasure to work with the famed director throughout a panel dialogue.
“I imply, Paul Schrader!” Thurman mentioned on the time. “I am a very massive fan of Paul Schrader. So to get to contribute, to lend myself to his piece, and get to see him working was an actual, actual privilege.”
Oh, Canada is in theaters December 6.
