Lea Thompson in comedy-drama Ten Tricks. Courtesy of Cinedigm and Fandor
The darkly-comic movie Ten Tricks is a real head-scratcher for several reasons. The title refers to two kinds of tricks – the bordello business kind and the type in a magician’s act – woven together in a sequence of overlapping snippets. Then, casting against type, the madame of the former is played by the chronically (in a good way) wholesome Lea Thompson, who could still play a cute ingenue at age 60. And it’s shot in black-and-white with a mostly unknown cast (some of whom play multiple roles) by first-time writer/director Richard Pagano, apparently on a budget so limited that “craft services” probably meant everyone brown-bagging it. The script mixes comic elements with a lot of sadness and frustration surrounding the assortment of sexual transactions we see.
The hookers (several women and one guy) are shown sympathetically, mostly enduring...
The darkly-comic movie Ten Tricks is a real head-scratcher for several reasons. The title refers to two kinds of tricks – the bordello business kind and the type in a magician’s act – woven together in a sequence of overlapping snippets. Then, casting against type, the madame of the former is played by the chronically (in a good way) wholesome Lea Thompson, who could still play a cute ingenue at age 60. And it’s shot in black-and-white with a mostly unknown cast (some of whom play multiple roles) by first-time writer/director Richard Pagano, apparently on a budget so limited that “craft services” probably meant everyone brown-bagging it. The script mixes comic elements with a lot of sadness and frustration surrounding the assortment of sexual transactions we see.
The hookers (several women and one guy) are shown sympathetically, mostly enduring...
- 9/27/2022
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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