Go Go Tales

2007 Directed by Abel Ferrara

A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.

Willem Dafoe Bob Hoskins Matthew Modine Asia Argento Riccardo Scamarcio Sylvia Miles Roy Dotrice Joe Cortese Burt Young Stefania Rocca Bianca Balti Shanyn Leigh Lou Doillon Frankie Cee Pras Michel Sammy Pasha Nicholas De Cegli Johnny Skreli Anita Pallenberg Alberto Mangiante Romina Power Anton Rodgers Justine Mattera Manuela Zero Sabina Began Selena Khoo Chiara Picchi Julie McNiven Xhilda Lapardhaja Show All…

Alternative Titles

Cuentos a go-go, Histórias de Cabaret

comedy drama

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Review by Rafael Jovine ★★★½

Action! - Stoning Abel Ferrara
Taking inspiration from Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Booker, after another of his darker and more mature films, Abel Ferrara lets loose with a comedy about a strip club owner trying to operate as everyone around him crumbles around him.
What immediately caught my attention about the movie is how Ferrara's camera constantly flows through every scene, regardless of what the script calls for. All of the scenes are shot like a 00s style music video, with plenty of panning when it comes to every scene and every character, especially the strippers, who show more butt shots than the entire Fast franchise, which makes sense with the director and the movie. I like how…
Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 1

"This is cabaret night. We're trying to give these kids a chance."
One of the best: With Shop Around The Corner, the great workplace comedy but also (with Pasolini & R'Xmas) Ferrara at his most humane, beautiful. Some have rightly compared the film with late Chaplin, particularly in it's surprising pathos: the care Roy Dotrice and Bob Hoskins have for Dafoe, the sadness they show at the possibility of his failure ("I can't tell him, it'll break his heart," Dotrice says when Modine says he's pulling the plug) It's the perfect companion piece to Chaplin's A King in New York, both films about that city after its transformation into a capitalist regime. Commerce rules everywhere and knows no boundaries however absurd…
Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 4

"we're investing in each other... we're taking care of each other." 😭
beat Magic Mike XXL to the idea of the strip club as a working-class community of misfits and artists.
Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★

Filmmaking and gentrification. A chronicle of disappearence taking placing entire in a club soundstage. So generous towards its large cast and the first film that suggest na aging Ferara could find a more gentle mode of expression. Also the start of the period of Ferrara/Dafoe as th best two-men team on current American cinema.
Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★

"'Don’t worry: when that lottery goes off tonight, they’ll be dancing. We’ll all be dancing.' Like every Ferrara protagonist, Ray Ruby is an addict. His addiction is gambling, yet if it’s this addiction which perhaps defines him, it’s only one part of a whole: he’s an artist, a dreamer, a performer, a hustler, a businessman. In other words, he is Abel Ferrara (making this wonderful viewing alongside Ferrara’s recent full-on self portrait, Alive in France), but most telling is that, ultimately, money comes first. This is capitalism: you can hate money, but you need it to survive. This continues to fascinate. The above quote in this paragraph comes after Ruby dodges the landlord to bet even more money, in a…
Review by Josiah Morgan ★★★★★ 2

Ferrara pulls together fleeting neon beams obstructed by human bodies to act as a demonstration of freedom, the comedy in Go Go Tales is primarily physical, a relation between body and character that we're trusted to innately understand. The mind of the object and the mind of the owner are one and the same. I wonder, then - is the mind of the viewer and the mind of the viewed symbiotic too? Most Ferrara films seem to crave humanity, but this one craves growth and profit, which is the foundation of all its absurd humor.
Review by Jake Cole ★★★★½

I don't even know what to say about this movie. It's gorgeous, absurd, and ends with a punk anthem about Bed Bath & Beyond.
Review by sarah ★★★★★ 1

wow ok, this was so wonderful.. that fucking ending. 💗💗💗💗💗
Review by Hayden Welch ★★★★

“This is my Dream. This is my legacy.”
Glad to see Ferrara tackle the genre of comedy. After reading so many interviews and listening to him talk, he has such a unique and off-kilter sense of humor that shines so brightly in Go Go Tales. When you pair that with an actor like Willem Dafoe, who is unafraid to let out his wild side. Since all Go Go Tales has is the personalities on screen, as it’s narratively lacking — which fits the mood so exquisitely — so casting someone of that eccentricity was a great choice. Go Go Tales isn’t as sprawling or tactile a piece as Showgirls, and all the better for it. A goofy and over-the-top look at something so shady — more so the addiction and business lenses —falls much more in line with what I love about Ferrara.
Would Recommend!
Review by Valeska G. Silva ★★★★★

O lago do bosque e as suas margens pertencem ao reino do mago Rothbart que domina a princesa Odette e todo o seu séquito sob a forma de uma ave de rapina. Rothbart transformou Odette e as suas companheiras em cisnes, e só à noite lhes permite recuperarem a aparência humana.
Review by Drew Hughes ★★★★★

Just fantastic to watch again after a long time
Review by Elliott ★★★★ 2

Go Go Tales walked so Uncut Gems could run.

Recent reviews

Review by Matias Sganzerla ★★★★★

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Review by Rafael Jovine ★★★½

Action! - Stoning Abel Ferrara
Taking inspiration from Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Booker, after another of his darker and more mature films, Abel Ferrara lets loose with a comedy about a strip club owner trying to operate as everyone around him crumbles around him.
What immediately caught my attention about the movie is how Ferrara's camera constantly flows through every scene, regardless of what the script calls for. All of the scenes are shot like a 00s style music video, with plenty of panning when it comes to every scene and every character, especially the strippers, who show more butt shots than the entire Fast franchise, which makes sense with the director and the movie. I like how…
Review by benmacintosh ★★★★

like no other girl in this world and she's... ours...
Review by cinemarising ★★★★½

Watched this in unspeakably bad quality but the beauty shone through. Hoskins screaming at the guy in the crab costume <3
Review by cinemarising ★★★★½

Could only find in unspeakable quality but the beauty shone through. Hoskins screaming at the guy in the guy in the crab suit...masterful
Review by babysgang ★★★½

Another Ferrara to rewatch, for sure. It’s probably not Abel’s weirdest film, but it felt like it to me. I’ll take the blame for all that right now. It’s all due to the atmosphere I am feeling here. It feels like I’m never inside. I don’t feel like it’s trying to keep me out, but for some reason I just let this world float away in front of my eyes, without swimming in it. And I didn’t want it to stop. Not even the screen “presence” of idiot wastrel Asia Argento ruined this.
Review by Michael Chantiri ★★★ 2

Kinda like if Showgirls and New Rose Hotel had a baby but it didn't really have its own unique identity and kinda lounged around and drifted for most of its life. The improvised dialogue and the frenetic pacing keeps this from being dull, I always found myself intrigued by all these characters and their adherence to a piece of paper that dictates their lives. From the outset, this sounds like something I would love to pieces but the act of watching it is an entirely different experience. Could see someone else really connecting with this but to me, it never quite gets out of its base level zone. At least it has Willem Dafoe singing a gorgeous song, that's never a negative in my book.
Review by tisc ★★★★ 2

"Look at it as an art form."
Review by Luana Pinheiro S. ★★★★½

I'm beautiful, I have a secret, and somebody loves me.
Resistant, ageless dreams and hopes in an unstoppable decadence of fluid time, where almost everything ends up being perverted into financial and material satisfaction. What can really remain as reality...
Review by Victor Martins ★★★★

A prova de que não é possível ser feliz, mesmo quando algo bom acontece em meio ao desespero, caos e necessidade.
Review by Nick Pierce ★★★½

Hawksian in conception. Willem Dafoe is one of the great modern screen actors.
Review by andrewodyssey ★★★★½

aight ladies and gentlemen , meet the film ,which imo did impact on "Uncut gems" very much and this is stunning critique of western politics .
i do find this picture extremely underrated even among Ferrara`s works