Official selection: Cannes Film Festival
Abel Ferrara’s first dramatic feature since 2014’s Pasolini reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who delivers a career-best performance as the title character, an older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film. Tommaso is easily Ferrara and Dafoe’s most personal and engrossing collaboration to date, a delicately surrealistic work of autofiction marked by the keen sensitivity of two consummate artists. – Film at Lincoln Center
“Manages to feel rough and risky while somehow sensitive at the same time, like the best of them.” — Eric Kohn, Indiewire
“A sweet, honest character study of a man struggling with guilt and anxiety. Dafoe is incredible.” — Tom Bond, Little White Lies
“Tommaso feels alive as a movie.” — Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Opening in Virtual Cinemas starting Fri. June 5
New York at Film at Lincoln Center
LA at Laemmle, Acropolis Cinema & Lumiere Cinema
Additional cities include Atlanta, Chicago,
Cleveland, Philadelphia, Seattle & more!
Nationally simulcast live Q&As with Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara
Kino Marquee is a new initiative that creates “virtual cinemas” for temporarily closed independent theaters. Local audiences support their community’s theater in these uncertain times by buying a virtual “ticket” to watch the film. Their ticket purchases directly support their local art house as all revenue is being shared between distributor and exhibitor, just as if they bought their ticket at the theater’s box office. Kino Marquee currently works with over 350 art house theaters across the nation.
