Abel Ferrara's TOMMASO (2019)
(With Willem Dafoe in DaPerson!! Anthology Film Archives. I am something of a Q&A man myself) Tommaso is from all accounts Ferrara's most personal film - chiefly that of Willem Dafoe, who I got to see speak at a question and answer talk after a screening lucky me etc, but I've read it elsewhere and the fact that he cast his own now-ex and their daughter in the roles of the wife and daughter for Dafoe's character says it so directly - and while I have to wonder if other films were just as personal at just different times in his life, ie when he was actively using and totally worked on drugs (Bad Lieutenant now seems like a scorched earth diary all the more), there is the danger of indulgence. More to the point with a project like this it's something that is closer to an Experiment in auto-fiction. According to Dafoe, there's some of him as well and it's not meant to be a strict self portrait (even though hey wait are those storyboards for your next feature f...
