Tommaso Q&A with Abel Ferrara and Sean Baker

Legendary filmmaker Abel Ferrara (Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, 4:44: Last Day On Earth) will be joined by Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project) to discuss Ferrara's deeply personal and formally inventive new film Tommaso, which opens in the FLC Virtual Cinema on June 5. Watch here: www.filmlinc.o...
Audience questions can be submitted in advance of and during the talk, so we encourage you to watch the film prior to the talk and submit your questions on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #AskFLC.
About the Film:
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.
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[@antwortmir4451]

I watched the film Tommaso, the film has some very good qualities, but I totally agree with Willem Dafoe that the crucifixion is not necessary. I say it's the wrong scene in the right movie, including the scene with the heart, the Jesus story in that story is misleading in a very stupid way, and that Tommaso shoots the lover is just nonsense. Without these three scenes it would be a much better movie. But Abel Ferrara insists on the meat grinder. Willem Dafoe should occasionally curb his friend's sadism and fear. The problem the film tells is dramatic enough that no additional slaughter is required. In a strange way, these scenes make the film a kitsch. Violence is emotional kitsch. “Welcome to New York” is a well done production, G.D. Is unbelievably good. Sean Baker represents a new generation, he’s important.

[@enricopo5325]

Great take. I personally really enjoyed those scenes but I understand with your sentiments. Watching this interview I suspect he may have wanted to add an element “un-reality” to something that is already deeply personal. This was not quite the case Welcome to New York, which had the dueling factors of the DSK history / GDs mammoth performance. In their own way those scene might even be just as revealing, I can imagine expressing those ideas aren’t easy either! That being said I have so much respect for Mr Ferrara that if he or anyone who knows him is reading this I just want to say I don’t mean to make any assumptions about his life, I am just giving my humble impression.

[@plasticweapon]

your talk about violence being emotional kitsch is crap, but i agree that this is the one movie where he shouldn't have had violence. as with everything else, one needs to know when and where to use it in a film.

[@kuklapsenner7185]

But why, and I return to show the uncertainty of a certain public, you don t put another facade of this video?

[@MrChaseBlue]

Thank you for this! But ugh totally forgot the start time of this live q&a -__-

[@TheTrashStash]

how did you guys contact him?

[@ewan8087]

anyone recognise the posters behind sean?

[@ollieboy117]

far left one is Panic in Needle Park