Richard Gere Reunites With Paul Schrader

Kino Lorber has lifted the curtain on Paul Schrader‘s “Oh, Canada,” debuting the primary trailer for the acclaimed filmmaker’s newest.

The movie first premiered at Cannes in Might, competing for the Palme d’Or. It has since toured the competition season, with picks at each Toronto and New York. The forged contains Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, Jacob Elordi, Victoria Hill and Kristine Froseth. The reputable synopsis for the movie reads: “Leonard Fife, one in all 60,000 draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to keep away from serving in Vietnam, stocks all his secrets and techniques to de-mythologize his mythologized existence.”

“Fife is loss of life and figuring out that his complete existence has been constructed on lies and he is attempting to confront himself sooner than he dies,” Schrader teased in an profile with Selection previous this 12 months.

Gere performs the older Fife, a revered documentary filmmaker giving a last testimony in an interview along with his previous scholars. Elordi, featured thru a chain of flashbacks, performs the more youthful model of Fife, following him thru his resolution to depart the USA.

This marks the second one collaboration between Gere and Schrader. The pair remaining labored in combination at the acclaimed 1980 movie “American Gigolo,” a provocative drama that reinforced either one of their Hollywood reputations.

“Oh, Canada” is in accordance with the unconventional “Foregone” via Russell Banks. Schrader had prior to now tailored Banks’ 1989 novel “Affliction” into the 1997 neo-noir crime drama of the similar identify.The film is produced via David Gonzales along Tiffany Boyle, Luisa Regulation, Scott LaStaiti and Meghan Hanlon.

Watch the trailer beneath.