The Girlfriend Experience

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Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE is five days in the life of Chelsea (adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream film debut), an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation ... - "the girlfriend experience." Chelsea thinks she has her life totally under control--she feels her future is secure because she runs her own business her own way, makes $2000 an hour, and has a devoted boyfriend (Chris Santos) who accepts her lifestyle. But when you're in the business of meeting people, you never know who you're going to meet...The twentieth film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (TRAFFIC, OCEAN'S ELEVEN), THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE is a sexy, gorgeously shot time capsule from the not-too-distant past.
  • Starring: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos
  • Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
  • Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
  • Release year: 2009
  • Studio: Magnolia
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Synopsis: Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE is five days in the life of Chelsea (adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream film debut), an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation - "the girlfriend experience." Chelsea thinks she has her life totally under control--she feels her future is secure because she runs her own business her own way, makes $2000 an hour, and has a devoted boyfriend (Chris Santos) who accepts her lifestyle. But when you're in the business of meeting people, you never know who you're going to meet...The twentieth film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (TRAFFIC, OCEAN'S ELEVEN), THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE is a sexy, gorgeously shot time capsule from the not-too-distant past.
Starring: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos
Supporting actors: Peter Zizzo, Timothy J. Cox, Timothy Davis, Jeff Grossman, Ted Jessup, Kimberly Magness, Ken Myers, Bridget Storm, Brooke Aldrich, George Aloi, Quarles Antoine, Danny Boushebel, Karen Collazzo, Daniel Fainman, Adelmo Guidarelli, Edward M. Kelahan, Tanda Mercer, Ian Christopher Noel, Clifford Rivera, Alyson Rogers
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
Release year: 2009
Studio: Magnolia
MPAA Rating: Rated R for sexual content, nudity and language
ASIN: B00284GCEE (Rental) and B002PYJBMW (Purchase)
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  • US Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 2009
  • MPAA: Rated R for sexual content, nudity and language
  • Production Company: Magnolia Pictures, 2929 Productions, Extension 765, HDNet Films
  • Also Known As: GfE
  • Filming Locations: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA | New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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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.
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37 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Passing Out Spoons, May 17, 2009
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.
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