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Fading Gigolo (2013)
Director: John Turturro
Writer: John Turturro
Cast: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Fading Gigolo (2013)
Writer: John Turturro
Cast: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis
Genre: Comedy-Drama
A well meaning older man (Woody Allen) decides to help his therapist (Sharon Stone) have a menage a trois. So he ask his friend (John Turturro) who's in need of money to works as a gigolo. Along the way he meets a deeply religious Hasidic Jewish woman, Avigal. She's a widow of a rabbi which then causes problems with the Jewish neighborhood patrolman who loves her. CR
I picked this movie up at my library because I seen Woody Allen on the DVD cover and I thought it was one of his lesser known movies. It's not. John Turturro wrote and directed this film. But it still feels a lot like some of Woody's better works. It's set somewhere in New York, in a orthodox Hasidic Jewish neighborhood. Which I thought was very interesting as I didn't know that they would have their own street patrol capable of detaining people and questioning their religious/moral activities. I don't know if this happens in real life? but it was interesting in the movie.
This is rated R and sounds like pure spectacle, but it's not. Except for one brief topless shot of Sharon Stone, who's still looking good btw, this could be a PG13 movie. We don't really see much of the gigolo work, just him meeting the rich woman and introducing himself. Then it fades into the next scene. Woody Allen was much older than I've seen him before in a movie, but he's still got that sharp wit and funny delivery of his lines.
It was nice to see Sharon Stone, though she doesn't have much air time. For me it was the overall lightness of the film, Woody Allen and John Turturro's characters and the secondary Hasidic community story line that made this film worth watching.
This is rated R and sounds like pure spectacle, but it's not. Except for one brief topless shot of Sharon Stone, who's still looking good btw, this could be a PG13 movie. We don't really see much of the gigolo work, just him meeting the rich woman and introducing himself. Then it fades into the next scene. Woody Allen was much older than I've seen him before in a movie, but he's still got that sharp wit and funny delivery of his lines.
It was nice to see Sharon Stone, though she doesn't have much air time. For me it was the overall lightness of the film, Woody Allen and John Turturro's characters and the secondary Hasidic community story line that made this film worth watching.