Late Fame

Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Intoxicated by the attention -- and by the alluring presence of Gloria, the group's "tragic heroine" -- Saxberger gradually reckons with the authenticity of his newfound poetic circle. This thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

"Wryly attuned to artistic pretension yet compassionate toward those caught up in it, Late Fame needs no grand catharsis. Naturalistic, funny, and melancholy, it questions its characters’ integrity while retaining an uncommon integrity of its own." -The Playlist

"Kent Jones is a filmmaker who’s deeply and dramatically curious, and that’s a quality he shares with the film’s screenwriter, Samy Burch, who wrote May December." -Variety

Directed by: Kent Jones

Running time: 97 min

Country: United States

Year: 2025

Language: English

Starring: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan