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LATE FAME

Kent Jones Starring Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, · 2025 · USA MAGNOLIA PICTURES · 96 min

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Willem Dafoe is Ed Saxberger, a postal worker whose former life as a downtown poet in late-70s New York is rediscovered by a young admirer (Donovan) and his “Enthusiasm Society,” a group of 20-somethings with a comically romanticized sense of the past. In the company of his new friends, including the mysterious and mercurial Gloria (Lee of PAST LIVES), Ed has the uncanny feeling of merging with his younger self. Directed by Kent Jones (DIANE) from a witty, razor-sharp script by Samy Burch (MAY DECEMBER), LATE FAME is a funny, lively, poignant, and occasionally haunting New York story.