“Critic’s Pick! Crackle[s] with ideas and empathy, as Ferrara’s best work always does.” – Glenn Kenny, The New York Times“…blending humility and go-for-broke nerve meticulously conceived and executed…one of the great Dafoe performances…If this film were a person, I would risk my life to save it.” — Matt Zoeller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
Directed by ABEL FERRARA
Starring WILLEM DAFOE
Currently playing nationwide in virtual cinemas as part of the Kino Marquee initiative, which directly supports independent theaters temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Learn more and find your local theater to support at kinomarquee.com/tommaso.
NATIONAL SIMULCAST LIVE Q&As
SUNDAY, JUNE 7
In Conversation:
ABEL FERRARA & SEAN BAKER
Film at Lincoln Center Talks Presented by HBO
Sunday, June 7 at 3pm ET / 12pm PT
Legendary filmmaker Abel Ferrara (Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, Pasolini) will be joined by Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project) to discuss his deeply personal new film Tommaso, now playing nationwide in virtual cinemas through Kino Marquee.Questions can be submitted in advance through Film at Lincoln Center’sTwitter or Instagram and during the event using #AskFLC.
Q&A with WILLEM DAFOE
Presented with Coolidge Corner Theatre
Sunday, June 7 at 2pm ET / 11am PT
Livestreamed conversation with Tommaso star Willem Dafoe,
moderated by Coolidge Dir. of Special Programming Mark Anastasio
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
Year: 2019 / 116 min / Color / 2.39:1 / Italy / English and Italian with English subtitles