Gigola 15
It's 1963 and Paris is sizzling with sex. The stylishly butch Gigola spends her days roaming chic cafes, taking on the criminal underclass, enticing pretty femmes away from their pimps, breaking hearts and making enemies along the way. Her evenings are spent in famous lesbian cabaret bar Chez Moune, picking up rich older women who keep her flush.
Based on the long censored novel of the same name, Gigola captures a little known chapter in Parisian history in which eroticism defied conventional morals.
Starring a host of renowned faces of European cinema, including Rossy De Palma (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Eduardo Noriega (Open Your Eyes, The Devil's Backbone), Marisa Paredes (All About My Mother, The Skin I Live In) Thierry Lhermitte (The Dinner Game), Marisa Berenson (I Am Love) and introducing Lou Doillon, daughter of Jane Birkin, as the eponymous Gigola of the title.
"Salaciously sexy... Gigola is nothing short of totally intoxicating. Magnifique!"
5 stars - SoSoGay.org
"It's steamy, saucy, racy and suffused with the feeling of wickedness you might get from drinking spirits before lunch or smoking in church... a fantastically naughty, silly and enjoyable film"
The Guardian
- Director
- Laure Charpentier
- Year
- 2010
- Duration
- 101 mins
- Language
- French
- Cast
- Eduardo Noriega, Lou Doillon, Marie Kremer
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