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Based on the novel “Foregone” by Russell Banks

Tale

Leonard Fife, one of the 60,000 con men and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to demythologize his mythologized life. This is Paul Schrader’s second time directing a Banks novel, following his adaptation of Verijäljet ​​(1997).

Well, you’d be wrong

Featured on the Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: Violent in Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024). With a stellar cast including Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, and Michael Imperioli, you’d think he’d have the star power to make a better film.

Paul Schrader “experiments” in a video that looks like it was made by a first-year film student

Schrader claims to have been friends with the anti-war protester/filmmaker on whose life story the film is based, but with friends like that, who needs enemies? Richard Gere’s character becomes increasingly unlikable and gradually loses the ability to express himself in words as he rages at everyone around him, muttering as he sinks into the darkness.

In other words, he’s becoming like Paul Schrader today

Do yourself a favor and skip this movie, even while streaming I can’t imagine pausing and leaving the room to do more important things than make a pathetic excuse for a movie.

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