Go Go Tales (2007)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Writer:

Abel Ferrara (writer)

Release Date:

20 June 2008 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A screwball comedy centered on a Manhattan go-go dancing club, where a financial struggle between the owner, his accountant and his silent partner brother threatens the business's future. |

Plot Keywords:

Breasts | Topless Woman | Tits | Topless Female Nudity | Partial Female Nudity

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Willem Dafoe	...	Ray Ruby
Bob Hoskins	...	The Baron
Matthew Modine	...	Johnie Ruby
Asia Argento	...	Monroe
Riccardo Scamarcio	...	Doctor Steven
Sylvia Miles	...	Lilian Murray
Roy Dotrice	...	Jay
Joseph Cortese	...	Danny Cash (as Joe Cortese)
Burt Young	...	Murray
Stefania Rocca	...	Debby
Bianca Balti	...	Adrian
Shanyn Leigh	...	Dolle
Lou Doillon	...	Lola
Frankie Cee	...	Luigi
Pras	...	Sandman (as Pras Michel)
Sammy Pasha	...	Sam
Nicky Dee	...	Bobby B. (as Nicholas De Cegli)
Johnny Skreli	...	Junior
Anita Pallenberg	...	Sin
Alberto Mangiante	...	Big Don
Romina Power	...	Yolanda Vega
Anton Rodgers	...	Barfly
Justine Mattera	...	Sugar
Manuela Zero	...	Sophie
Sebina Beganovic	...	Elektra (as Sabina Began)
Selena Khoo	...	Leila
Chiara Picchi	...	Ally
Julie McNiven	...	Madison
Xhilda Lapardhaja	...	Salome
María Jurado	...	Goldie
Yuliya Mayarchuk	...	Tania
Aurora Giuliani	...	Kelly
Mara Adriani	...	Mara
Leila Virzì	...	Bonnie
Ray Schnitzer	...	Upstairs Barman
Elena Vaganova	...	Murray's Girl
Irina Vaganova	...	Murray's Girl
Andy Luotto	...	Stanley
Danny Quinn	...	Clark
Lal Nirmal	...	Asim
Singh Gurcharnjit	...	Zoom
Dominot	...	Mrs. Mime
Frank DeCurtis	...	DJ
Chen Jin Hang	...	Ling
Un Cho Sung	...	Mr. Yamamoto
Shi Yang	...	Medical Student
Jacopo Lo Faro	...	The Crab
Francis Pardeilhan	...	Wall Street broker
Jay Natelle	...	Wall street broker (as Jay Edward Natelle)
Francesco Serina	...	Wall street broker
Donato Antonio Lemmo	...	Wall street broker
Emanuele Carucci Viterbi	...	Wall street broker
Daniele De Martino	...	Wall street broker
Leslie Csuth	...	Wall Street Broker
Adrian McCourt	...	Wall Street broker
Alessandro Demcenko	...	Wall street broker
Daniel Baldock	...	Wall street broker
Marcus J. Cotterell	...	Wall street broker
Joseph Murray	...	Wall Street Broker
Neri Fiuzzi	...	Wall street broker

Directed by
Abel Ferrara

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Abel Ferrara		writer

Produced by
Enrico Coletti	....	executive producer
Massimo Cortesi	....	executive producer
Francesco Di Silvio	....	co-producer
Francesco Di Silvio	....	executive producer
Oriane Gay	....	associate producer
Paolo Lucidi	....	line producer

Original Music by
Francis Kuipers

Cinematography by
Fabio Cianchetti

Film Editing by
Fabio Nunziata

Casting by
Gillian Hawser

Production Design by
Frank DeCurtis

Art Direction by
Alessandro Troso		(art direction)

Set Decoration by
Corinna Ughi

Costume Design by
Gemma Mascagni

Makeup Department
Giancarlo Del Brocco	....	makeup artist
Giammarco Gaeta	....	hair stylist
Marco Perna	....	hair stylist
Aldo Signoretti	....	hair designer

Production Management
John Cesaroni	....	post-production supervisor (original version)
Costanza Coldagelli	....	production executive
Alessandro Manni	....	unit manager
Enrico Pini	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alessandra Balestra	....	second second assistant director
Federico Ferrario	....	assistant director
Alberto Mangiante	....	first assistant director
Barbara Pastrovich	....	second assistant director
Gianluigi Tarditi	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Paolo Amici	....	sound effects editor
Maurizio Argentieri	....	sound mixer
Antonio Barba	....	boom operator
Roberto Cappannelli	....	assistant re-recording mixer
Chris David	....	sound re-recording mixer
Silvia Moraes	....	sound editor
Vincenzo Nardi	....	boom operator
David Quadroli	....	sound effects editor
Fabrizio Quadroli	....	sound effects editor

Special Effects by
Maurizio Corridori	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Bruno Albi Marini	....	visual effects supervisor
Stefano Camberini	....	digital intermediate editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Luigi Andrei	....	Steadicam operator
Luigi Andrei	....	camera operator
Alessio Bastianelli	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Giancarlo Checchi	....	electrician
Claudio Frollano	....	gaffer
Gian Claudio Giacomini	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera
Zampieri Giacomo	....	additional video assist operator
David Hausen	....	director of photography: second unit
Simone Lucchetti	....	electrician
Marcostavros Maggi	....	assistant camera: "a" camera
Paolo Marchetti	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera
Flaviano Ricci	....	key grip
Marco Sticchi	....	electrician

Editorial Department
Natalie Cristiani	....	first assistant editor
Simone Fontana	....	digital intermediate editor
Christian Gazzi	....	digital color grading
Emily Greene	....	assistant editor
Irma Misantoni	....	post-production coordinator

Music Department
Fabio Colucci	....	musician
Marco Saitta	....	music editor

Other crew
Eleonora Baldwin	....	script supervisor
Daniele Esposito	....	production secretary
Jacopo Lo Faro	....	assistant: Mr. Ferrara
Daniela Macrillo	....	payroll clerk
Fabrice Mansouri	....	actors director
Aurelio Marino	....	cashier
Pacetti Priscilla	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Bellatrix Media
• Bellatrix
• Go Go Tales
• Surreel

Distributors

• Cinema Without Frontiers (2008) (Russia) (theatrical)
• IFC Films (2008) (USA) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• Wonderlab (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix
• Wilshire Stages, The  ADR recording facility

Runtime:

USA:96 min

Country:

Italy | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Italy:VM14 | Portugal:M/16

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Bellatrix Media

Trivia:

Gary Oldman and then Robert Carlyle were originally set to star in the project.

If you speak French, you'll find looking for inconsistencies in the subtitles more entertaining than what's going on on screen

If you speak French, you'll find looking for inconsistencies in the subtitles more entertaining than what's going on on screen. For any good film, I take well over a page of notes. For this one, I took less than half a page. 'Nuff said? Perhaps not. How can a film with Willem Dafoe as a strip club owner, and with Bob Hoskins, be boring? Well, this one is. How disappointing. Dafoe does more acting (and we learn more about his character) in the first scene of To Live and Die in L.A. than he does in this entire film. Dafoe as Ray Ruby, owner of the Paradise Club; Hoskins as the Baron (greeter / maître d' / bouncer); and Matthew Modine as Johnnie Ruby, the Salon King are nothing special here. On the other hand, Sylvia Miles as landlady Lilian Murray; and Stefania Rocca as Debby, a dancer who is also a screenwriter, are decent and believable.

As to the plot, there isn't much of one—nothing out of the ordinary happens here, nothing unexpected. There's no more conflict, no more actual heartfelt emotion at Ray's Paradise Club than there is at your own neighbourhood bar or pool hall. When a hundred seconds of plot are stretched out to a hundred minutes of film, that is NOT 'a good thing.' Likewise when any five minutes of a film look essentially the same as any other five minutes.

The sole exception is Selena Khoo as Leila, a dancer who is also an accomplished pianist. She should've been on screen a half hour more than she was. Oh well, maybe in the sequel. Oh, whom am I kidding? There isn't going to be a sequel. God, I hope not.