Directed by Paul Schrader
Writer-director Paul Schrader channels multiple European influences (Bresson’s Pickpocket by way of Bertolucci’s The Conformist) into one of the most influential American films of the 1980s. Richard Gere’s Los Angeles gigolo, Julian, thrives in a world of brief encounters and seductive surfaces--Schrader’s camera glides effortlessly through spaces brilliantly rendered by visual consultant Ferdinando Scarfiotti and cinematographer John Bailey--until he becomes a suspect in a murder investigation.
Paramount Pictures. Producer: Freddie Fields, Jerry Bruckheimer. Screenwriter: Paul Schrader. Cinematographer: John Bailey. Editor: Richard Halsey. Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, Bill Duke.
35mm, color, 117 min.
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