The contrast between the 8
mm home -
movie footage that opens the film and the subsequent scene showing Murray's bookstore in its final throes sets the thematic stage: Fading Gigolo is intended to be as much about aging as it is about love and sex.
Essayistic in style, and constructed like a collage of original musical compositions, contemporary
footage, narration, animation and 8
mm home movies, it deftly flits between the serious and the playful, the funny and heartfelt.