Willem Dafoe: A Life of Acclaim Channeled into 'Late Fame' - Golden Globes
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Late Fame: this tale of literary redemption is sad, tender and opaque
Kent Jones’s carefully wrought film Late Fame offers a wry eulogy for vanished bohemia and a deft meditation on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous dictum that “there are no second acts in American lives”. Almost half a century ago, Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) was a minor figure on the New York poetry scene. But as Ed himself acknowledges: “I had my moment. It passed.” The decades since the publication of his solitary volume of verse, Way Past Go, have…
Transposition of a short novel by Arthur Schnitzler, this film by Kent Jones tells the story of an employee of the post office, a former amateur poet who rediscovers a group of young people.Worn by an immense Willem Dafoe, adaptation retains all the malicious wisdom of the bookThe cinema sometimes reserves you pretty surprises, including from the United States. The proof with Kent Jones, former critic, director of theatre and festival become doc…
Willem Dafoe: A Life of Acclaim Channeled into 'Late Fame' - Golden Globes
The making of the film “Late Fame” sounds like something out of a movie itself. Written by Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler, the novella was written around 1910 and went unpublished for more than a hundred years, until 2014. The story centers on a forgotten poet, Saxberger, whose work is discovered by a young fan whose attention and flattery reawaken a longing for a past time. Willem Dafoe was drawn to the story when it was recommended by his f…
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