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Go Go Tales

2007

Abel Ferrara

Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine, Bob Hoskins, Asia Argento ...

6.2

301

Comedy. Drama Ray Ruby's paradise: a classy go go/cabaret in downtown Manhattan is a factory of dreams and dreamers, run by the charismatic impresario Ray Ruby, with the expert assistance from long time cronies and colourful hangers on and featuring the most beautiful and talented girls in paradise. Unfortunately all is not well in Paradise and in the course of one eventful nite, Ray and his main sidekick, accountant Jay, are facing imminent foreclosure by the landlady. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Ferrara isn’t an innocent, not exactly, but because he clearly feels at home in this world, he expresses an honest, heartfelt respect for its inhabitants and habitués."	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'Go Go Tales' achieves a strange poignancy, illuminating the failures of the club while holding a mirror up to the rebellious Ferrara’s struggles as a filmmaker (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"The main problem is that Ferrara gives an almost exclusively male view of this milieu, with its female characters depicted as decorative, ditzy or neurotic"	NEG
United States	Robert Koehler Variety	"Ferrara is in a wonderfully loose and comedic mood after the complex spiritual dramatics of 'Mary'"	POS
United States	The Film Stage	"I’m thinking 'Go Go Tales' may very well be Ferrara’s masterpiece"	POS

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