Paris-based distributor ARP Choice has acquired French rights for Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada forward of its world premiere in Competitors on the Cannes Movie Competition in Could.
Oscar nominee Schrader (Taxi Driver,First Reformed) wrote and directed the movie, which reunites him with Richard Gere some 40 years after their collaboration on American Gigolo, with different members of the forged together with Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli and Jacob Elordi.
Schrader has tailored the drama from late author Russell Banks’ 2021 novel Foregone, a couple of famend documentary maker with secrets and techniques from the previous. It’s Schrader’s second adaptation of a piece by Banks, after 1997 thriller thriller Affliction, starring Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek.
“We’ve been long-time admirers of Paul Schrader’s work and religious readers of Russell Banks’ books,” mentioned ARP Choice head Michèle Halberstadt.
“Oh, Canada is the reunion of two masters, and in addition a reunion between Paul Schrader and Richard Gere, so we felt this was an irresistible proposition. The film is fantastically crafted, as brutally trustworthy as it’s coronary heart wrenching. We’re extraordinarily proud to introduce Oh, Canada to French audiences.”
Gere stars as famed documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, an American leftist who fled to Canada as a younger man (Elordi) to keep away from the Vietnam Conflict draft.
As Fife battles most cancers in Montreal throughout his twilight years, he agrees to at least one closing interview. Intent on revealing his long-guarded secrets and techniques and demystifying his mythologized life, Fife’s surprising confession unfolds amidst the presence of his spouse and producing accomplice, Emma (Thurman), his devoted former scholar Malcolm MacLeod (Imperioli), and a workforce of filmmakers capturing this profound second.
David Gonzales (Grasp Gardener) lead produces Oh, Canada alongside Tiffany Boyle (Joyland), Luisa Legislation (The Unintended Getaway Driver), Scott LaStaiti (Kandahar), and Meghan Hanlon.
Arclight Movies’ Gary Hamilton, Ying Ye, Ryan Hamilton and Brian Beckmann are govt producers alongside Terri Garbarini, Tom Ogden, Andrea Bucko, Kyle Stroud, Elsa Ramo, Oliver Ridge, Andrea Chung, Kathryn M. Moseley, Eyal Rimmon and Damiano Tucci.
Arclight Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales and WME Impartial is co-repping home rights with Gonzales.
“We’re delighted to workforce up with Paul Schrader once more following his acclaimed trilogy together with First Reformed. And Cannes is the perfect launch pad to showcase this extraordinary movie for our worldwide patrons,” mentioned Arclight Movies Chairman Hamilton.
The deal was negotiated between ARP Choice and producer Gonzales on behalf of the movie.
