Tommaso (2019) – Virtual Screening

Calgary Cinematheque is proud to present a virtual screening of Cannes 2019 selection TOMMASO (2019)! Cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT, THE KING OF NEW YORK) reteams with Willem Dafoe in 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.