Oh, Canada

A megnyílás és az önmagunkról szóló rejtett igazságok feltárása erős motívuma, nyilvánosan a kamera előtt, a meglepődő feleség jelenlétében. Richard Gere karakterének őszinte önreflexív monológjaival. Ő mint mindig kiváló, a precíz Uma Thurman pedig tökéletes partner számára. A hihetetlenül kellemes zene (dalok) és a flashback jelenetekben megjelenő kellemes retró látványvilág jellegzetes rendezői patinát ad a filmnek. A film vége azonban nem elégít ki. Az előzmények, a főszereplő múltjának feltárása annak relativitásával, hogy mi igaz és mi nem, több potenciált rejtett volna. [Cannes FF] (2024.05.21)

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] (2024.05.24)