Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing has shared a poster and trailer for Late Fame, the upcoming comedy drama from director Kent Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut, Diane).
Willem Dafoe leads a cast that includes Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan, and stars as Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet who finds his artistic passion reignited when his work is discovered by an eccentric group of young creatives. Watch the trailer below…
The great Willem Dafoe lends his delicate gravitas to the role of Ed Saxberger, a< forgotten New York poet who works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer (Edmund Donovan) 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” (a sinuous, Kurt Weill–crooning Greta Lee)—Saxberger gradually reckons with the authenticity of his newfound poetic circle.
Late Fame arrives in cinemas on August 7th.
