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Fading Gigolo - film review

Hilarious.  Slice of NYC's boroughs and the life in it.  Easy to watch yet subtle and informative at the same time.  John Turturro has written and directed this wonderfully funny love story about an out of work handy man who also is friends with a maybe-Jewish bookseller going out of business.

Turturro plays the handy man while the bookseller is Woody Allen.  Few films deliver laughs without too much drama but this one does.  Item numbers have been added in the form of an aging Stone (Sharon) and not so aging Vergara (Sofia) to introduce an element of purposeful garishness to go with the silly and nuanced comedy of Allen and Turturro.

There is a plot where Allen becomes an accidental pimp to Turturro who is his 'ho' or a Gigolo.

Allen scouts candidates / customers from all that NYC has to offer - lonely, rich females, married or otherwise.   Turturro satisfies them.

Allen's character even comes up with names for the both of them and decides that this is definitely a worthy profession that has had a reason to exist since the beginning of time.

Some cameo appearances from likes of Bob Balaban add to the hilarity.

While the movie Faded from the box office I think it is worth a watch for a few Giggolos.
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