The funniest book ever written was published 11 years after its author died unknown. This is why.
The life story of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Kennedy Toole as told by friends and colleagues. Legacy format production, representational photography and an original music score combine to bring the author's life into focus. His personal triumphs, his untimely death and the publication of the novel, 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' years after his suicide are all explored in this darkly beautiful first person narrative.
Editing
Thelma Toole's archive footage is devastatingly intimate.
Score
Original music that knows when to stay silent.
Director
Joseph Sanford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walker Percy initially refused to read the manuscript, hiding from Thelma Toole in his office until she cornered him in the hallway.
The film captures New Orleans in a specific pre-Katrina haze that now reads as its own elegy.
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