Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Paul Schrader’s film Ah, Canadawhich reunites Richard Gere and Schrader after their collaboration on American Gigolo.
Gere plays an American documentary filmmaker who has settled in Montreal as a refugee from Vietnam and tries to set the record straight in a final interview. The film, which depicts a man reflecting on his legacy while facing the end of his life, stars Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi and Michael Imperioli and premiered in competition at Cannes.
“Ah, Canada “This is a stunning artistic achievement from the great Paul Schrader, a poignant and formally audacious meditation on aging, memory and mortality, anchored by a masterful performance from Richard Gere,” Lisa Schwartz, head of acquisitions and theatrical distribution at Kino Lorber, said in a statement.
Ah, Canada will screen at the Toronto Film Festival and the New York Film Festival before Kino Lorber plans a theatrical release this December. Schrader wrote and directed Ah, Canada based on the 2021 novel Abandoned by the late Russell Banks.
Banks’ novel Affliction inspired Schrader’s 1997 adaptation of the same title starring Nick Nolte and James Coburn. The distribution deal for Ah, Canada was negotiated by Schwartz and David Gonzales of Kino Lorber and WME Independent working for the filmmakers.
Ah, Canada is an Arclight Films International presentation of a Northern Lights, Vested Interest, Ottocento, Left Home Prods. production, in association with Exemplary Films, Carte Blanche Entertainment, One Two Twenty Entertainment, Sipur Studios.
The film is produced by David Gonzales, Tiffany Boyle, Luisa Law, Meghan Hanlon and Scott Lastaiti.
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