#gigola

[haveyouseenthisqueerfilm]

Have you seen Gigola (2010)?

Yes

No

I've never heard of this film

Voting ended onAug 28, 2025

[empirearchives]

Two portraits of Francesca Lechi

1. By Giovanni Battista Gigola, 1800

2. By Andrea Appiani, 1803

Francesca Lechi was involved in Napoleonic events in Italy, such as the Revolution in Brescia, which took place when Napoleon’s army entered the region in 1797. She met Joachim Murat at a ball, and the two had an affair. She even followed him to Paris, until her husband wrote to Napoleon complaining of the situation. She was active in political events, procuring the fabric used for the tricolor flag hoisted on the Broletto in Brescia.

Stendhal, in Vie de Napoléon, said of her:

“Countess Gherardi, daughter of Count Lecchi, had perhaps the most beautiful eyes in Brescia, the land of beautiful eyes. She added to all her father’s genius a gentle cheerfulness, a real simplicity, which was never altered.”

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[celluloidrainbow]

GIGOLA (2010) dir. Laure Charpentier George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love with a teacher named Sybil. Devastated by the woman’s eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle’s nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only. (link in title)

[somanyhumanbeings]

Giovanni Battista Gigola, Autoritratto del’artista (c. 1805)