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Late FameDir: Kent Jones, 2025, USA, 1hr 37 mins, Cert:15
Wed 7 October // 20:00
Tickets: £5
A wonderfully introspective Willem Dafoe lends his delicate gravitas to the role of Ed Saxberger, a once-upon-a-time New York poet who has worked at a post office for nearly four decades, his work now largely forgotten.
After an eager and flattering young fan appears on his doorstep one night, Saxberger is welcomed into a new coterie of twenty something admirers who hope to make him the central figure in an emerging literary salon.
Intoxicated by the attention and the presence of the wannabe tragedienne Gloria (a magnificent Greta Lee) Saxberger nevertheless must reckon with the authenticity of this newfound circle of fans.
Kent Jones’s thoughtful and marvelously witty second feature adapts Arthur Schnitzler’s recently rediscovered novella Late Fame (in a sly, hugely entertaining script by Oscar-nominated May December writer Samy Burch), updating the Austrian writer’s take on turn-of-the-century Vienna for a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.
"this smart, literate, stylish film is a tonic and Dafoe is, of course, a pleasure for every moment he is on screen." **** Guardian
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