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While admittedly a self-indulgent exercise, Tommaso is powerfully anchored by an outstanding central performance from Willem Dafoe. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

A broken man searching for stability finds a new life in Italy with a much younger wife. He struggles to reconcile this new beginning with the stumbles of the past.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Abel Ferrara
Producer:

Laura Buffoni, Simone Gattoni, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Michael Weber
Writer:

Abel Ferrara
Release Date (Theaters):

Jun 5, 2020 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Jun 5, 2020
Runtime:

1h 55m
Production Co:

Washington Square Films, Simila(r), Vivo Film, Faliro House
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Willem Dafoe
Tommaso

Cristina Chiriac
Nikki

Anna Ferrara
Deedee

Stella Mastrantonio

Lorenzo Piazzoni
Tommaso's Student

Alessandro Prato

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Critic Reviews for Tommaso

All Critics (72) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (17)

This quasi-confessional drama about a frustrated filmmaker, written and directed by Abel Ferrara, plays more like a vain boast.

June 15, 2020 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
As such, it's a glossy, overlong, intermittently arresting tour of an aging artist's fears and fancies as his wild ways are domesticated.

June 8, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
What sets Tommaso apart are its diaristic qualities, held together by Dafoe's performance.

June 6, 2020 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
AV Club
The camera stays close to Dafoe for nearly every moment of the movie and he brings a compelling vibrancy to the screen.

June 6, 2020 | Full Review…

Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
Even if third-act nods to Malick and late-era Jodorowsky may be a little too far removed from Ferrara's true strengths. Yet better a director like Ferrara strive for fascinating reinvention and self-reflection than rest on old laurels.

June 6, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Richard Whittaker
Austin Chronicle
The film ultimately lacks a balance between portraying Tommaso as a man rebuilding his life and as a man plagued by the recurring mistakes of his younger years.

June 5, 2020 | Full Review…

Roxana Hadadi
AWFJ Women on Film
Willem Dafoe is a fine actor and he makes the most of the title role. He emotes the hell out of it, but I sure could not make much sense out of this movie.

February 14, 2021 | Rating: C | Full Review…

Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
If Tommaso was 20 to 30 minutes shorter, perhaps it would be a more palatable viewing experience and would feel less meandering.

February 1, 2021 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…

Nicole Ackman
Next Best Picture
That's the nature of Ferrara's world; a world where pleasure and pain can't stay apart from each other.

January 14, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Filipe Freitas
Always Good Movies
Ferrara and Dafoe have together been slowly building up an ongoing miniature Human Comedy in the shadows.

November 3, 2020 | Full Review…

Witney Seibold
Critically Acclaimed Podcast
A Ferrara's drama with a moderate performance from Dafoe, shot in an evident documentary style, but which in the long term is swept away by a narrative as empty as the streets of Rome at midnight. [Full review in Spanish]

October 8, 2020 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

Yasser Medina
Cinemaficionados
A film that works like a mirror: the director watch himself in an audiovisual work like a therapy itself. [Full review in Spanish]

October 5, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Guillem Martinez Oya
Cinematismo