Oh, Canada

Oh, Canada

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Release Date

12/6/2024

Runtime

94 mins

Genres

Overview

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

$1

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A dying filmmaker unravels his own mythology in a final interview, moving between the present moment and a lifetime of difficult choices. It's a quiet, honest reckoning with the gaps between the life you present to the world and the one you actually lived.

Mood

MelancholicContemplativeWistfulMournful

Themes

MortalityMemoryIdentityBetrayal

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Documentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Framed flashback

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