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Fading Gigolo

Crit

What a sweet story about a guy pimping out his friend to two beautiful women who have decided that they simply must try a threesome; is it bad form to wonder why none of my friends has ever thought of exploiting me thus?

What the story--written and directed by John Turturro, who also plays the titular Fioravante--is really about is the awakening of Avigal (Vanessa Paradis), a young Hasidic widow who meets Fioravente through Murray (Woody Allen) after delousing one of Murray's black stepchildren. Got that?

The two tricurious women are played by the pneumatic Sofía Vergara and the still-crazy-sexy-after-all-these-years Sharon Stone, and whatever you think about Stone (and my feelings have always been mixed), it is worth the price of admission to see the expression she summons when her character realizes, mid-ménage, that the boy has fallen in love, and not with either of the women he's in bed with.

Trailers

• I Origins--New Haven kid Mike Cahill wrote and directed, and I really admired his Another Earth, but the trailer suggests that he has gone all-in this time on trying to make silly and implausible work as surprisingly profound. Still: open mind, about the film, if not about the new-agey religion it seems to be pushing.