Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada is expected to arrive in the US soon. The film, which debuted at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and then played at TIFF, features Jacob Elordi and Richard Gere portraying a documentarian in two different times of his life, with Elordi playing Gere’s younger self. The film is an adaptation of Russell Banks’ 2021 novel ‘Foregone.’ Banks and director Schrader previously collaborated on Affliction.

The film is about Aging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), still fiery despite his battle with illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his Vietnam War draft-dodging and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Leonard sits for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the tumultuous 1960s and beyond.

At Leonard’s insistence, his wife and indispensable artistic partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), bears witness to it all. His successes are held up against his failings and, as the man is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left.

The trailer shows Elordi and Gere to have an uncanny resemblance, appearing to be seamless versions of the same character at various points in life. The actors are shot in similar lighting and locations to accentuate their physical similarities.

Paul Schrader’s adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel sees him reunited with Gere more than 40 years after American Gigolo to deliver a moving and deeply personal take on this story of an artist reflecting on a lifetime of storytelling.