Oh, Canada by Paul Schrader, this is the reunion between Paul Schrader and Richard Gere, 44 years later American Gigolo, but the carefreeness of the 80s is far away. Paul Schrader adapts the last novel of his friend Russell Banks, a testamentary book, just like this film where Richard Gere plays a famous documentarian, sick, he accepts that one of his former students collects his last words before he is too late.
But this man with a failing memory, supported by his wife – a moving Uma Thurman – looks at his own past with incredible severity. The 60s and 70s in the United States, the flight to Canada to escape the Vietnam War, the birth of his son, the film about him, everything is confused, overflowing with regrets and guilt.
Oh, Canada is incredibly daring, despite meager means, we are far from the golden age of the new Hollywood. It's a mischievous labyrinth, where the young main character is played by Jacob Elordi, but also by Richard Gere himself, as if he were visiting his own past. We say to ourselves that Paul Schrader is thinking about his own death, it's dark, but what a cinematic gesture, from an old man still in great shape.
The Beautiful Role de Victor Rodenbach
It's the story of a couple, Henri and Nora, who are close, who love each other and share everything, and who are as much best friends as they are lovers, also having in common a taste for acting and the stage, to put it simply, he plays in the plays that she directs at the theater, near Reims, but the balance of this relaxed and bohemian life will be called into question when Henri goes to a casting for cinema, and a film shoot at Paris, and succeed, which will precipitate their breakup.
The main strength of this pretty little film, it's this duo, embodied by the very endearing and talented William Lebghil and Vimala Pons, multi-talented artists (circus, theater, cinema, music) and increasingly visible in the cinema for our greatest pleasure.
A charming film, which avoids both commonplaces about artists, cinema and theater, and therefore the usual clichés about the cultural codes and tastes of each field, or even a relocation, mostly far from the capital , to avoid a form of in-betweenness. But it's also a bittersweet comedy of remarriage, a subject not always well addressed on the big screen, how to re-tame yourself when you leave each other.
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