‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Richard Gere And His ‘American Gigolo’ Filmmaker Paul Schrader Reunite For Reflective Drama About Truth, Regrets And Mortality – Cannes Film Festival

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Hard to believe it has been 44 years since Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere last worked together on 1980’s seminal American Gigolo, a film that became not just a keystone in Gere’s celebrated career but also one for one Schrader’s as one of his earliest directorial credits.

Of course he has written some of the great screenplays, particularly in his collaborations with Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ and Taxi Driver.

But it is what interests him now a half century later as a writer-director that continues to fascinate. In recent years that has included insular works like The Card Counter, Master Gardener and the critically acclaimed First Reformed.

Now he has returned to more of what he labels a “mosaic,” in this case a movie made up of pieces of a life put under a cinematic microscope at different periods, all moving in and out of the mind of a man who is dying but still lucid enough to tell the truths of his life as time is running out, some revealed for the first time as he grapples with both morality and mortality.