EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee hit the Venice Film Festival this weekend in Kent Jones’ playful drama Late Fame , which world premieres in the Orizzonti sidebar.

Dafoe leads the cast with a quietly authentic performance as protagonist Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet who works in the post office.

With his life on the poetry circuit a distant memory, Saxberger is suddenly propelled out of his humdrum life, when he is ‘redisovered’ by a group of young admirers wallowing in nostalgia for the lost downtown New York of the late 1970s and early 80s.

Past Lives star Greta Lee plays Gloria, an older woman who has also been adopted by the group as its designated “tragic heroine”.

Further cast include Edmund Donovan as the leader of the band of well-heeled faux bohemian

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