American Gigolo (1980)
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo
Synopsis:
A gigolo's luxury lifestyle is shattered when he comes under suspicion of murder and his only alibi is a client.
Review:
The director's Calvinist background is particularly apparent in this early work, with its preoccupation with questions of relative guilt and determinism, but the surface gloss rather gets the better of the stylish melodrama. Still, fascinating in its difference, and the last gasp of the director-led seventies.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo
Synopsis:
A gigolo's luxury lifestyle is shattered when he comes under suspicion of murder and his only alibi is a client.
Review:
The director's Calvinist background is particularly apparent in this early work, with its preoccupation with questions of relative guilt and determinism, but the surface gloss rather gets the better of the stylish melodrama. Still, fascinating in its difference, and the last gasp of the director-led seventies.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo
Synopsis:
A gigolo's luxury lifestyle is shattered when he comes under suspicion of murder and his only alibi is a client.
Review:
The director's Calvinist background is particularly apparent in this early work, with its preoccupation with questions of relative guilt and determinism, but the surface gloss rather gets the better of the stylish melodrama. Still, fascinating in its difference, and the last gasp of the director-led seventies.