Paul Schraders Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Whos Faced Death Vulture

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  • Oh, Canada is a portrait of a dying man who feels that his inner self has failed to live up to his public one
  • The movie hops between the dying documentarian's thoughts and episodes from his past, in a hall-of-mirrors style reminiscent of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist
  • The once Adonis-like Gere makes for an engagingly pissy guide through Fife's current physical challenges and his lifetime of passive regret
If Paul Schraders most recent films have made a meme out of the image of a solitary man sitting in an empty room and writing in a journal, then his latest flips that idea on its head. Some have surel [+4498 chars]

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