Directed by Abel Ferrara

Pulsing with operatic intensity and a furious moral vision all his own, the films of Abel Ferrara comprise one of the most fearless and uncompromising bodies of work in modern cinema. Emerging in the New York of the seventies, he used the grime and sleaze of the city’s margins as a backdrop to subversive tales of sin and redemption, from the urban-nightmare thrillers MS .45 and BAD LIEUTENANT to the delirious gangster saga KING OF NEW YORK and the provocative vampire allegory THE ADDICTION. Whether working in science fiction (NEW ROSE HOTEL), horror (BODY SNATCHERS), or inside-Hollywood melodrama (DANGEROUS GAME), Ferrara has fused genre thrills with searing personal expression. And since relocating to Rome in his later career, he’s continued to direct searching meditations on art and life like TOMMASO. Spanning nearly five decades of defiant independence, his films wrestle with profound themes of faith, power, guilt, and salvation, confronting the depths of human degradation in search of transcendent purity.