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She gasps at another point, as if this wouldn't be any logical person's first assumption. Steven Soderbergh's latest lo-fi production is strikingly crafted but emotionally vague. A high-priced escort is basically a hooker. Steven Soderbergh's 2009 movie The Girlfriend Experience worked in large part because of the lead performance of then-porn star Sasha Grey. Not as good as Bubble, but still pretty good. Almost all of the show is shot in apartments that look more like showrooms than homes, and high-ceilinged hotels with overpriced restaurants attached. He made another appointment for November 3rd. It's long enough to detach viewers from what's really happening: just a shiny metal tool slowly working against flesh. It is not bad, it just had the potential to be so much more than it is. While her escort friend talks about her work, Christine asks, "And you have sex with them? "

But The Girlfriend Experience moves quickly, and Christine soon morphs into someone who not only makes sex her living, but is painfully blasé about it. I feel this movie would have served better as a documentary. The new Starz series is loosely inspired by Steven Soderbergh's 2009 film of the same name, which chronicled the work of a high-end escort (played by then-adult-actress Sasha Grey) trying to make money in New York City after the 2008 financial collapse. Audience Reviews for The Girlfriend Experience. I will never understand why she would stop doing porn so she can portray a upscale high-priced escort. Sasha Grey is recognized throughout the world for being a pornstar. "I find it to be a waste of time. " "You meet men online? " Read critic reviews.
"I love vacations" is among the best / worst line readings on the show. The Girlfriend Experience is definitely not a portrayal of most realities, and probably not a portrayal of any single person's reality either, escort or otherwise. He filmed it on a small budget in a matter of two weeks with a cast that has never acted before(except Sasha Grey, but her normal films include deep throating or anal). It wasn't a masterpiece by any stretch, but it was a decent little experiment. Long, patient shots seem to slow down time, even as more than a year passes over the course of the series. In the end, I always have fun seeing a Soderbergh film for the first time and The Girlfriend Experience was no different. Characters who once seemed significant fade into the background. Grey is not completely responsible for her stale performance. It's more just a character driven movie that has some statements to say about the Obama/McCain race and the crumbling economy.

That's the elevator pitch for The Girlfriend Experience — one woman's experience of exchanging sex for money — but it's really just a starting point for the show's attempts to explore under-the-table transactions as a general space: the hidden exchanges of the economy, business, family, and sex. Even while trying to claim that sex is no big deal, The Girlfriend Experience is often hand-wringing and squeamish, treating physical intimacy like an act of body horror. The Girlfriend Experience is a show about having explicit but perfected sex in beautiful hotel rooms. May 24, 2012An original though detached and shallow study of the economic meltdown of 2008, seen through the lenses of a New York call girl (Sasha Grey), and how she deals with her various clients. The Girlfriend Experience's performances just aren't good enough to create it. Though she had virtually no acting experience (sadly, we can't count playing yourself on a bad season of Entourage as acting experience) she gave an honest, chilling portrayal of a high-end escort searching for deeper meaning in life. The Girlfriend Experience Photos. Aug 02, 2011The Girlfriend Experience feels like an experiment in film-making.

Though, like the movie, we doubt any of it will be truly sexy and more likely kind of sad and uncomfortable, so yeah. She wasn't half bad, and because of that, it's the same with the movie as a whole; it wasn't half bad. When we meet Christine, she's a law student with an internship at a glossy patent law firm, and she's semi-scandalized by the idea of being an escort. But in a show that feels like it's shot in a museum, the men often seem like the closest thing to flesh and blood. The things that were entertaining had to be the rich clients. It's extremely short and also feels like the audience is distanced from the characters. Like Soderbergh's original movie (he stays on as an executive producer here), The Girlfriend Experience is obsessed with specific spaces, and the feelings associated with those spaces.

The floors are always shined and Christine rarely has a stray hair fall out of her bun. It is clear the message is how pathetic these men are for being only concerned about money and looks. These type of experimental movies can be some of the most realistic movies you'll ever watch. At 77 minutes, it crawls towards those minutes feeling like two and half hours worth of cinema.

This movie shows the corruption that is within certain parts of society. I'm always open to movies like The Girlfriend Experience though; especially when someone like Soderbergh is directing. The clients are shown to be egocentric, materialistic, and politically educated only for self gain. The movie doesn't do the audiences any favors when it comes to excitement. It's about the end result at all costs; several of its tangled plotlines get lost and never finish. "See it with someone you ****" The Girlfriend Experience is another one of Steven Soderbergh's experimental films. Even moments of intense fear and paranoia are trumped by this blank look, as if Christine is terrified to feel anything other than a deadening emptiness. The show is a lot like its main character: distractingly beautiful, but ultimately empty, even when it treats you to a little glimpse of humanity. Soderbergh's Bubble and Van Sant's Elephant and Paranoid Park are movies that come to mind. Because prostitution is illegal in the show's world, every sex scene (and there are many) feels like a covert documentation of a criminal act, even if Christine isn't with a client. On The Girlfriend Experience, this space exists in moody hotel room lighting and late nights at the office, coming up for daylight only when the dark gets too heavy.

There's the widower with fungus on his feet whose children won't talk to him, the hotel owner taking out loans so he can afford to pay Christine, the good-guy lawyer, and the married guy who seems to be the only one who understands Christine is just another flawed person. Christine's interactions with some of these men are the only evidence that she's capable of empathy. With the doe-eyed innocence of Anastasia Steele. This has the effect of making the show's atmosphere look almost supernatural, filtered by murky orange and blue lights. Keough's portrayal of Christine is calculated, cold, and pristine, like a revamped Patrick Bateman. While director Steven Soderbergh does a brilliant job picking a perspective on a subject like this and having a "fly on the wall" presence throughout, the film's inability to enamor or push beyond its initial thoughts on the economy prove to be very disappointing. Over the course of the series, Christine sleeps with several men, many of whom feel indistinguishable from one another (aging, strong-jawed business-types with very clean suits and even cleaner apartments). He hints at it, but doesn't just come out and say it. A "sophisticated escort" goes about her life and we watch it take place. The only thing that is lacking in The Girlfriend Experience to create that same realistic effect are the performances. Jul 27, 2012Chelsea: After he got off the phone, we made out for a while and then he asked me to masturbate, which I did. Nevertheless, she has decided to make the transition to film that leave many people scratching their heads for the reasons.

The soundtrack too recalls a specific kind of wealthy, ambient horror: single, piercing notes; ice clinking against glass; hotel doors unlocking with plastic key cards. Now, The Girlfriend Experience will live on, but as a TV show on Starz and without Grey in the lead role. You might also likeSee More. Directors Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz told The Verge they shot with almost no lighting save what came into each scene naturally. The Girlfriend Experience is aesthetically beautiful, and almost consistently stunning to look at. She has a boyfriend who is okay with the whole thing, but he seems to want it to stop through his dialogue. Like the film, the show will focus on high-end escorts and all the craziness that surrounds this underground world. These men actually pay another woman to have sex with them when they have wives at home. This time around, the story moves to Chicago, where Christine Reade (Riley Keough) becomes interested in escort work after she discovers a close friend makes most of her income from it. "I just don't enjoy spending time with people, " she says at one of the show's many nondescript hotel restaurants. Jul 08, 2011The beauty of the movie lies in the way the scenes appear as being stolen stills from reality.