Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Fading Gigolo is a gentle, quirky comedy with a warm New York atmosphere but a fairly thin premise that doesn't develop its central conceit with much depth. Turturro and Allen have a comfortable chemistry, and the supporting cast (including Vanessa Paradis and Sofia Vergara) adds charm, but the acting rarely transcends pleasant. The cinematography captures a soft, autumnal Manhattan nicely without being visually ambitious. The film has a modest novelty in its tone — a kind of old-fashioned, Woody Allen-adjacent whimsy — but it doesn't feel truly distinctive or original. The ending drifts into sentimentality without satisfying resolution, feeling abrupt and undercooked.