Fading
Gigolo 10/10
Last
night Cam and I caught a double feature. The first film we saw was
Fading Gigolo starring John Turturro and Woody Allen. Also in this
were Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, Vanessa Paradis, and Sofia Vergara. Going into this I wasn't exactly sure what to expect and by
god was I surprised at how much I loved this movie. Turturro wrote
starred in, and directed this. I thought from what little I'd heard
that this was about a guy who used to be a lady's man who was older
and trying to get back into it. That isn't what this is about.
Turturro
is Fioravante. He's a handyman, florist, and just an all around
quiet, nice guy. He works with Allen who is named Murray. They have
been friends for years and as Murray's book store is closing he
proposes the idea of sleeping with a lady he knows for money. At
first Fioravante is against it saying that he isn't a hoe. After
finding out how much he'll get he decides to give it a shot. It is a
test drive for a planned three-way between Dr. Parker and Selima
(Stone, Vergara). He does it and everything goes smoothly. So
smoothly that they start a business from it. Eventually Murray finds
a client who is a widow with six children named Avigal (Paradis). A
patrolman of the small Jewish neighborhood named Dovi (Schreiber) who
has a thing for her tails her to Fioravante's “office” where he
plans on giving her a massage. It goes horribly wrong. I now that
Murray had good intentions but she ends up crying though not for the
reasons I expected.
