Calgary Cinematheque is proud to present a virtual screening of Cannes 2019 selection Tomasso (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. – Film at Lincoln Center
Tommaso is available to stream from Friday, July 24th at 4pm MST until Friday, August 7th at 5pm MST. Tickets are $9 and viewers will have 5 days to watch the film from date of purchase. Click the button below to purchase tickets.
Special Features
Introduction by Jason Wierzba
Cinematheque Chats
We miss talking about films with our audience! Next Tuesday at 6pm, we're hosting our first session of Cinematheque Chats via Zoom, where Programming Coordinator Kevin Dong and Programming Chair Jason Wierzba will be leading an in-depth discussion about Tommaso. Community members who are craving rich conversations about cinema can click the link below to register. All are welcome!
Documentary - Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
For viewers interested in some free and fascinating supplementary material, the somewhat obnoxious but really altogether harmless & adorable Jason Philip Wierzba recommends the 2003 episode of the French series Cinéma de notre temps "Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty." This mindblowing profile on the Tommaso director will doubtlessly have all viewers in a state of awed perplexity, musing to themselves: "How does this man get films financed? How is he even insurable?!”