Motherless Brooklyn

"A meticulously, lovingly made mood piece, full of empathy for the ones who can't speak - at least not always the way they want to - for themselves."

Entertainment Weekly
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Edward Norton
  • USA 2019
  • 144 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

The Festival Closing Film

Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a lonely private detective living with Tourette Syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). Armed only with a few clues and the engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of New York in the balance. In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn and, finally, into the gilded halls of New York's power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption and the most dangerous man in the city to honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation.


  • Director Edward Norton
  • Filmography Keeping the Faith (2000)
  • Production Bill Migliore, Edward Norton, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Michael Bederman
  • Script Edward Norton
  • Cinematography Dick Pope
  • Editing Joe Klotz
  • Music Daniel Pemberton
  • Festivals Toronto, New York
  • Actors Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Leslie Mann
  • Source Tulip Entertainment, Tel Aviv