A French Gigolo
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French | Cliente |
Directed by | Josiane Balasko |
Screenplay by | Josiane Balasko |
Adaptation by | Josiane Balasko Franck Lee Joseph |
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Cinematography | Robert Alazraki |
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Music by | Kore |
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Distributed by | Gaumont |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $8.4 million |
Box office | $6 million[1] |
A French Gigolo (French: Cliente) is a 2008 French comedy-drama film directed by Josiane Balasko and starring Nathalie Baye, Éric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré and Balasko.
Plot
Patrick is a male prostitute who hides his double life from his wife. When she finds out about his extramarital activities by answering his phone, she decides she will catch him in a hotel room with a client. At first offended by the behavior of her husband, she soon asks him to continue to be a male escort to help pay the bills. Patrick meets a female client, Judith, with whom they live out a complicated love story.
Cast
- Nathalie Baye as Judith
- Éric Caravaca as Marco
- Isabelle Carré as Fanny
- Josiane Balasko as Irène
- Catherine Hiegel as Maggy
- Marilou Berry as Karine
- Félicité Wouassi [fr] as Rosalie
- George Aguilar as Jim
- Sandrine Le Berre [fr] as Bérénice
- David Rousseau as Alex
- Guillaume Verdier [fr] as Zoltan
- Jean-Christophe Folly [fr] as Toutoune
- Richard Berry as Lucas
- Maria Schneider as Marie-Hélène
- Arnaud Valois as Sylvain
- Cécile Breccia as Elodie
- Guillaume Nicloux as Jean-Louis
- Rudy Berry as Jonathan
- Gérard Krawczyk as the bar's patron
Development
A French Gigolo premiered at the Rome Film Festival in October 2008. The film was also screened at the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival.
References
- ^ "A French Gigolo (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
External links
- A French Gigolo at IMDb
- A French Gigolo at AllMovie
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