Actor Edward Norton's upcoming directorial "Motherless Brooklyn" will bring the curtains down on 2019 edition of New York Film Festival.
The film, which is Norton's second venture as a director since 2000's "Keeping the Faith", will make its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on October 11, the NYFF organisers said in a statement.
"NYFF has been my hometown festival for nearly 30 years, and it's consistently one of the best curated festivals in the world. Every year I look forward to meeting up with old friends and colleagues to go watch the year's best films in their program. NYFF always perfectly straddles everything I love about the movies.
"They balance serious audiences and thoughtful conversations about film with just the right level of glamour and celebratory fun. To have this particular film -- which grew out of my love affair with New York -- selected for Closing Night is just a huge thrill... a dream come true, actually," Norton said.
Adapted from Jonathan Lethem's novel of the same, the story is set in New York of 1950s. It follows Lionel Essrog, a private investigator with Tourette syndrome who works to solve the mystery of his mentor's murder.
"He himself drawn into a multi-layered conspiracy that expands to encompass the city's ever-growing racial divide and the devious personal and political machinations of a Robert Moseslike master builder, played by Alec Baldwin," the official summary of the film read.
The cast also includes Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Leslie Mann and Cherry Jones.
Kent Jones, Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair, said, "Edward Norton has taken Jonathan Lethem's novel as a jumping-off point to craft a wildly imaginative and extravagant love letter to New York, a beautifully told hard-boiled yarn grounded in the mid-20th century history of the city. What a way to close the festival."
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