Oh, Canada: Time is Tricky

Mild spoilers.

Mortality is weird, right?

What O, Canada attempts to do is to have a discussion about what matters at the end of a life. What ends up being important. How life weights up at the end.

At first, you think you’re watching a film about film making. Soon, the subject, Leonard Fife, himself a famous (fictional) documentary filmmaker, commandeers his own interview, diving into early years of his life never discussed through the course of it.

What becomes apparent is that we get stuck here - stuck on the early days, unable to leave. We get more and more confused, more and more disoriented by time and guilt and circumstance.

We’re Leonard, really. The interviewer disappears and details unfurl.

Some delightful filmmaking techniques are employed like magic tricks. Richard Gere’s performance is characteristically fantastic — and Jacob Elordi sparkles. All other characters are lost to the corners as this man grapples with the space.

See this film if you wanna get a lil trippy with time, or watch any of the principal cast act their asses off.