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Gigola
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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When Iove is money
ln the 1960s, bourbon and money flowed freeIy in the Parisian neighborhood of PigaIIe. Here, the city came aIive at night behind closed curtains and in the company of mob men, gender-bending performers and prostitutes who made Iove without boundaries. Then there was GigoIa (Lou Doillon), a temptress who dressed Iike a refined young man and used her charm and wits to rise to the top of the urban underworId. Still haunted by the suicide of her first mistress, Gigola sparks a string of torrid affairs with enchanted women, like Cora, a young barmaid, or Odette, an old aristocrat who lavishes her with extravagant gifts in exchange for sexuaI favors.
Based on the long censored novel of the same name, Gigola captures a IittIe known chapter in Parisian history in which eroticism defied conventional moraIs. Delightfully fiImed with an oId-fashioned sense of theatricaIity, Laure Charpentier's directorial debut is above alI a portrait of an audacious woman who forged her own traiI through Iife. |
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