Fading Gigolo
Short description
Fading Gigolo follows Fioravante, a middle-aged New York handyman who, short of money, agrees to a business arrangement proposed by his friend Murray. Murray, who is also struggling financially, becomes the manager of sorts for Fioravante's new career as a paid companion to wealthy women. The arrangement gains momentum as more clients seek him out, but the situation grows complicated when Fioravante becomes involved with Avigal, a young widow in the local Hasidic community, drawing the disapproval of those around her, including Dovi, an Orthodox Jewish man.
John Turturro directed, wrote and stars in the film, his third feature as director after Illuminata and Romance & Cigarettes. Woody Allen plays Murray, with Vanessa Paradis as Avigal, Liev Schreiber as Dovi, and Sharon Stone and Sofía Vergara as two of Fioravante's clients. The production came from Antidote Films, with Paul Hanson, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte and Bill Block serving as producers.
The comedy runs 90 minutes and was released in 2013. It earned about 3 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.2 from roughly 26,000 votes, while on TMDB it has a 5.8 from about 625 votes. A critics' rating of 5.8 from 145 reviews places it close to the audience scores, indicating a generally mixed response across viewers and reviewers alike.
What's left behind the scenes
- The first person John Turturro shared the new story with was, strangely enough, his barber. And the barber, accustomed to chatting with clients during haircuts, blabbed everything to Woody Allen. The master was so impressed with Turturro’s idea that he soon tracked him down and got involved in the work.
- One of the few appearances of Woody Allen in a film he is not directing himself.
- To create an authentic atmosphere in certain episodes of the film, John Turturro spent several years studying the life of the Orthodox Jewish community, reading books on the history of Hasidism, and meeting with many people from this circle.
- While preparing for the role of a rabbi's widow, Vanessa Paradis spent several weeks talking to a young woman from a closed Jewish community, a woman with a life situation similar to that of her character. 'She was a very strong, young, beautiful woman,' says Vanessa Paradis, 'she was only 25, but it seemed like she had already lived over a hundred years.'
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