(by Francesco Gallo) “It was a bit scary to see myself getting older, to see myself as I will probably be in a number of years. It is a very unusual factor”, Richard Gere mentioned at the moment on the movie’s press convention Paul Schrader‘s ‘Oh, Canada’ in competitors on the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place he turns into an ailing director on the finish of his life.
The place did American gigolo Schrader ever go? No extra.
After greater than forty years since they first collaborated with Schrader, this time he performs a documentary director, Leonard Fife who within the final interview freely admits all his sins together with fleeing to Canada with out being drafted for Vietnam.
All tailored from a novel by Russell Banks, who died final yr.
“My father continued – Gere continued – he died a number of months earlier than Paul Schrader offered the undertaking to me. My character resides his final days and the way his thoughts offers with so many various realities is what that meant extra to me than this script,” defined the 74-year-old actor.
Relating to Fife’s escape to Canada and the potential for going again on his determination to flee to keep away from conscription through the Vietnam Warfare, Richard Gere all the time says: “It is all the time a tough query. We’re going to struggle, so what we do, let’s do. Take a gun or not? The query is all the time the identical: is the struggle simply or unjust.”
It have to be mentioned that Paul Schrader introduced Russell Banks’ first novel, Affliction, to the display in 1997.
Already a critic, author and screenwriter on Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, he stayed in Martin Scorsese’s shadow for a very long time, earlier than slowly attaining his personal private success.
Within the close to future, he introduced a detective story based mostly on sexual obsession.
A curiosity in regards to the title, Oh, Canada is a track by Neil Younger.
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