Director Abel FERRARA produced a low-budget film about the daily life of an American director staying in Rome as he awaits investment for his next project Siberia. Tommaso, which combines the style of home movie and psychological drama, is like an autobiography as if the director’s confession was made into a film. One day, because of an image about his wife’s affair whether true or an illusion, he is consumed with jealousy. Then he starts clinging to the past. The film added realism as FERRARA’s alter ego Willem DAFOE and his real wife and daughter featured and filmed at his house. Ferrara’s unique imagination replaces the self-destructive reflection of a middle-aged man with a greater theme of human salvation. [Sung MOON]