Product Details

• Actors: Sasha Grey
• Directors: Steven Soderbergh
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 29, 2009
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0027BOL46
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,249 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Girlfriend Experience" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Top Shelf Soderbergh, May 21, 2009

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C. J. Kennedy (Los Angeles, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Girlfriend Experience (Amazon Instant Video)

If you like Soderbergh's more challenging, smaller scale, experimental work, you'll find a lot to love about The Girlfriend Experience. If you're just showing up for porn star Sasha Grey, save yourself the 10 bucks unless you really want to see the girl act. She actually delivers a natural, credible performance as an escort who isn't nearly as sophisticated as she thinks she is.

Told in a fractured, back and forth manner, the narrative is slight and challenging, but the jumbled chronology galvanizes your focus on what's happening. This isn't just the story of a call girl, it's really about loneliness, disconnectedness and the commodification of everything in the modern world, including love.

Soderbergh is often a detached filmmaker, but this is one of his most emotionally resonant pictures since Solaris. The feeling is subtle, but it's there.

This is also one of the most beautifully photographed films of the year.

59 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars can't buy me love, May 22, 2009

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Daniel B. Clendenin (www.journeywithjesus.net) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Girlfriend Experience (DVD)

The need to love and be loved, to know and be known, suggests director Steven Soderbergh (Bubble), is so deeply and powerfully embedded in human nature that we will do almost anything to get it. We will even pay for it, whether to a therapist, to a personal trainer like Chris, or to a $2,000 an hour "escort" girl like Chelsea who provides sex, of course, but mainly therapy to very wealthy but deeply lonely men. Mainly they talk to Chelsea, about all the things you'd talk about in a "real" relationship. She pretends to offer that and they believe they receive it, and woe to both parties when they drop their guard and transgress business boundaries to reveal themselves to each other as real human beings rather than as partners in a transaction. Since human love is one of the few things you can't buy, Chelsea and her clients seek something they can't get and forfeit their closest approximations in what they already have.

37 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Passing Out Spoons, May 17, 2009

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chmwood - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Girlfriend Experience (Amazon Instant Video)

Maybe Amazon should have a spoon rating for the movies in its on-demand service. It seems as though most people who have reviewed this film wanted to be spoonfed a story of some type...or maybe the spicy material wasn't as Kleenex-box worthy as they had hoped.

Whatever the case, don't listen to them if you like movies that let you look into someone else's life. GFE is like a Cassavetes film, without all of the yelling. Oh, and it's brilliant.