With The Funeral, Abel Ferrara revisits many of his trademark obsessions — madness, honor, duty, loyalty, sexual dysfunction, and Catholic guilt and repentance — via the flashback - heavy story of the funeral of communist gangster Johnny Tempio (Vincent Gallo) at
the house of his mob boss brother Ray (Christopher Walken).
Once more, Katz works with a kinetic and inspired cast, featuring Game
of Thrones hunk Nikolaj Coster - Waldau as the ex-cop Joe Denton, veteran heavies Robert Forster and Jacki Weaver as a very bewildered Mr. and Mrs. Denton,
House of Cards heroine Molly Parker as an all - too - forgivable nurse, an ever - reliable Blair as an all - too - gullible friend, a supremely terrifying Healy as a
mob boss» dickhead son, and the one and only Gary Cole as a dirty cop trying to cover his dirty ass.