(2013, 118 min)
Country: U. S.
Director: Pau Masó, David Damen
Studio: Breaking Glass Pictures
SYNOPSIS: The emotionally troubled life of a young male prostitute in Manhattan is explored in this moving drama of sex, loneliness and redemption.
REVIEW:
A young man's entrapment in the degrading world of male prostitution is the theme of this melancholic indie - produced, directed, written by and starring (super-sexy) Spanish actor/model Pau Masó.
Aleksandr is a timid young man and recent illegal Russian émigré, now living in New York. Sensitive and timid to a fault, he soon finds himself all alone after his mother’s sudden suicide. Needing money, he begins dancing in a seedy gay club, a job that both pays well and offers him a feeling of being wanted and desired.
The dancing soon evolves into escorting as Aleksandr almost reluctantly becomes a prostitute with a steady stream of regulars. But he soon realizes that the physical pleasure does not satisfy his desperate yearning for love. He even fools himself into believing he has found "the one" in the form of one of his customers, a married "straight" man who is actually only interested in his hot ass.
Soon his world becomes a series of sexual encounters with none of the emotional comfort he craves. He becomes increasingly troubled and reaches out for help to different men - but is their help real, or just another guy trying to get into his pants?
Aleksandr's Price is an impassioned, emotional look at one man's hard-knock life, the decisions he makes and the price he pays for them.
-- Raymond Murray, TLA Video (http://www.tlavideo.com)
