Oh, Canada

Motivo denso de abertura e declaração purificadora das verdades escondidas sobre si mesmo, publicamente diante das câmaras e na presença da esposa surpreendida. Com monólogos de auto-reflexão sincera do personagem de Richard Gere. Ele é tradicionalmente ótimo e é acompanhado pela precisa Uma Thurman. O filme ganha um toque de direção único com uma música incrivelmente agradável (canções) e um visual retrô atraente nos flashbacks de memória. No entanto, o final não satisfaz. O tema de revelar o passado do personagem principal com relatividade do que é verdade e do que não é, tinha um potencial maior. [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)