Oh, Canada

Das reichhaltige Motiv des Öffnens und Reinigens, die Enthüllung verborgener Wahrheiten über sich selbst, öffentlich vor Kameras und in Anwesenheit der überraschten Ehefrau. Mit ehrlichen Selbstreflexion-Monologen der Figur von Richard Gere. Er ist wie immer großartig und wird präzise von Uma Thurman unterstützt. Der Film enthält eine besondere Regie-Note – darum haben sich die unglaublich angenehme Musik (Songs) und eine ansprechende visuelle Retro-Darstellung in den Erinnerungsflashbacks gekümmert. Das Ende ist jedoch nicht zufriedenstellend. Das Thema mit der Enthüllung der Vergangenheit der Hauptfigur und der Relativität dessen, was wahr ist und was nicht, hätte ein größeres Potenzial gehabt. [Cannes FF] (21.05.2024)

Oh, Canada starts off very promisingly, with our last interview with Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), a famous documentary filmmaker who fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War. It's very important for him to have his wife present for the interview because he wants to share what he hasn't shared yet. And so he begins to tell his life story. What we gradually learn about him is actually not entirely flattering, and his wife doesn't like the new revelations either, so he blames it all on his medical condition and the side effects of his medication. What's true, what's fabricated, what's distorted, what does Fife himself remember differently than it really was? It's all done quite engagingly, with a great soundtrack and great actors, but gradually the pace somehow slows down, the ideas become more and more obscure, the questions mount, and suddenly it all fizzles out into a bland, unfinished ending... and I don't know what the poet was trying to say. [Festival de Cannes 2024] (24.05.2024)