Oh, Canada (2024)
Directed by Paul Schrader
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.
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“The Phoenician Scheme” has legacy on its backbone, not only Anderson’s, who joins an array of veteran filmmakers that recently made projects talking about such (Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada”, amongst others).
…the older Jay revisits young Jay (reminding me of Richard Gere in “Oh, Canada”) being talented, hot and absentee…