![]() The director captured the period very well and I did feel for the servants who had to work extremely hard for there disrespectful masters. And the whole movie is ostensibly building up to a three-way between Turturro's character and characters played by Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara, but it barely happens! Woody Allen's character actually gets more substantive development, and yet in terms of the main narrative his role basically amounts to 'Woody Allen is doing something amusing in the corner while the story happens.' The film has a couple of weird, rather misjudged subplots that seem to belong to a different movie. ![]() Though John Turturro's character is ostensibly the main focus, he's weirdly underdeveloped we never really see the character on his own and have very little sense of who he is outside of the demands others make of him. Unfortunately, in terms of its actual success it's much closer to lesser Allen works like Whatever Works or Anything Else. Rather, it aspires to be a pensive and sweet look at New York life, along the lines of Allen's own Hannah and Her Sisters or Annie Hall. Though the film is about a man entering prostitution at a late age, it's not a crude sex comedy in the vein of something like Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo. ![]()
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