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LATE FAME

• Director: Kent Jones
• USA / 2025 / DCP / Colour / 96' / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Samy Burch
• Original Work: Arthur Schnitzler
• Director of Photography: Wyatt Garfield
• Editing: Mike Selemon
• Music: Don Fleming
• Cast: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan
• Producer: Pamela Koffler, Mason Plotts, Christine Vachon, Danny Roberts, H.S. Naji, Jackie Langelier
• Production Co.: Killer Films, Fresh Fish Films
• World Sales: MK2
• Turkish Rights: Fabula Films

Having had its premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival, Late Fame follows Ed Saxberger, a forgotten 1970s New York poet, who now works in the post office. After a flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Ed is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Wickedly ironic and unexpectedly poignant, Late Fame is about the illusory effect of praise on the soul, and the lingering ghostly presence of the past. Willem Dafoe’s stunning performance is in the Oscars buzz. Directed by Kent Jones who had huge success with the film documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut in 2015.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.