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Based on the novel Foregone by Russell Banks
Leonard Fyfe, one of sixty thousand draft dodgers and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid service in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to demystify his mythologized life.
This is the second time that Paul Schrader has adapted one of Banks’ novels for the screen, following his adaptation of Affliction (1997)
With such a great cast of actors like Richard Gere, Uma Thurman and Michael Imperioli, you’d think you’d have the star power to make a movie better than this one.
Well, you are wrong
Paul Schrader goes «experimental» in a film that looks like it was made by a college freshman.
Schrader claims to have been friends with the war protester/director whose life story this film is based on, but with friends like that, who needs enemies?
Richard Gere’s character becomes increasingly unpleasant and gradually loses the ability to express himself in words when he gets angry with everyone around him, muttering when he sinks into darkness.
In other words, he becomes what Paul Schrader is today
Do yourself a favor and skip this one, even on streaming I can’t imagine it would be better if you could pause it and leave the room to do more important things than watch this sad semblance of a movie.
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