2013 · comedy
Fading Gigolo
Directed by John Turturro1h 30m2013
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Our read: Fading Gigolo (2013) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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