Fading gigolo (2013)

	Also Known As: Apprenti gigolo
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: John Turturro
	Actors: Woody Allen, John Turturro, Sharon Stone, Sofía Vergara, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 27.10.2014, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: In Brooklyn, the bankrupted owner of a book store Murray (Allen) is forced to close his family business. His dermatologist Dr. Parker (Stone) dreams of having a threesome and would pay a thousand dollars to have one with her friend Selima (Vergara). Murray tries to convince his friend florist Fioravante (Turturro) to consummate the deal. While Fioravante is at first hesitant at the prospect of being Murray’s “hore,” he also needs the cash. When Fioravante meets the Jewish Avigal (Paradis), who is the widow of a rabbi, they fall in love with each other. But the Jewish Dovi (Schreiber) loves Avigal and will make life difficult for Murray.
Review: The comedy looks like the good Woody Allen comedies of the 80s-90s taking characters slightly stereotyped of New-York in a web of relationships. The actors played their stereotypes very well. Sharon Stone almost repeated her famous leg gesture of Basic Instinct. The casting fits to the stereotpyes, having Sofía Vergara as gorgeous threesome friend for Stone, and Vanessa Paradis as fragile woman. Many dialogues are extremely funny. In this I had the impression at the end that Turturro was intending to become the new Woody Allen. The humour made also fun of the segregationist of any kind, such as the NY Jewish society here but in a way reminding dialogues from The Godfather and affecting then Italian-Amercian and all these groups.
Rating: 7 /10