Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer, Meyers, appears on the doorstep of his weathered Manhattan apartment, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Intoxicated by the attention – and by the alluring presence of Gloria, the group’s “tragic heroine” who carries the grace, poise, and glamour of an actress from another era – Saxberger gradually reckons with the authenticity of his newfound poetic circle.
“The very first time I read Samy’s script, so emotionally varied and knotty, so funny and so bracingly frank, the film started forming in my mind. I could see the characters. I could see the places where they hung out and where they made a living. I could see the New York of now and the New York of a now vanished past, one delicately layered over the other. And I could feel the presence of poetry, forever fragile and at its very best forever free.” (Kent Jones)
Kent Jones
Born in 1957 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Studied film at New York University. An internationally recognised writer and filmmaker, Jones is the author of several books of criticism and has been a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine. He has worked with Martin Scorsese on numerous documentaries. He made his fiction debut with the critically acclaimed Diane.