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Gigola
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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When Iove is money
In the 1960s, bourbon and money flowed freeIy in the Parisian neighborhood of Pigalle. Here, the city came aIive at night behind cIosed curtains and in the company of mob men, gender-bending performers and prostitutes who made love 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 underworld. StilI haunted by the suicide of her first mistress, Gigola sparks a string of torrid affairs with enchanted women, Iike Cora, a young barmaid, or Odette, an old aristocrat who lavishes her with extravagant gifts in exchange for sexual favors.
Based on the Iong censored noveI of the same name, GigoIa captures a little 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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