In the end, I always have fun seeing a Soderbergh film for the first time and The Girlfriend Experience was no different. 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). I will never understand why she would stop doing porn so she can portray a upscale high-priced escort. This movie has so many flaws that are hidden by beautiful cinematography and the casting choice of Sasha Grey.
Audience Reviews for The Girlfriend Experience. Long, patient shots seem to slow down time, even as more than a year passes over the course of the series. Then he masturbated while watching me. 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. Every scene leading up to a sex scene can feel like a threat. Sasha Grey is recognized throughout the world for being a pornstar. These type of experimental movies can be some of the most realistic movies you'll ever watch. She wasn't half bad, and because of that, it's the same with the movie as a whole; it wasn't half bad. 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. 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. The Girlfriend Experience is a show about having explicit but perfected sex in beautiful hotel rooms. The movie is all about thought and character, and could be off-putting in that respect. Aug 02, 2011The Girlfriend Experience feels like an experiment in film-making.
The floors are always shined and Christine rarely has a stray hair fall out of her bun. While her escort friend talks about her work, Christine asks, "And you have sex with them? " Grey is not completely responsible for her stale performance. The only thing that is lacking in The Girlfriend Experience to create that same realistic effect are the performances. "I love vacations" is among the best / worst line readings on the show. 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. The Girlfriend Experience is, at times, irritating, captivating, uncomfortable, beautiful, heavy-handed, frightening, confusing, and a little bit dumb. Steven Soderbergh's 2009 movie The Girlfriend Experience worked in large part because of the lead performance of then-porn star Sasha Grey. This has the effect of making the show's atmosphere look almost supernatural, filtered by murky orange and blue lights. I feel this movie would have served better as a documentary. This whole movie is Chelsea's and the brunt of the film falls squarely on Sasha Grey's fingers. This also means that the show can feel slightly self-important at times, with overly serious dialogue like "You can be whoever you want to be, " and "Everyone is paid to be everywhere — it's called economy.
Jul 08, 2011The beauty of the movie lies in the way the scenes appear as being stolen stills from reality. Now, The Girlfriend Experience will live on, but as a TV show on Starz and without Grey in the lead role. The plot is really not there. These men actually pay another woman to have sex with them when they have wives at home. It's extremely short and also feels like the audience is distanced from the characters. The things that were entertaining had to be the rich clients. Keough's portrayal of Christine is calculated, cold, and pristine, like a revamped Patrick Bateman. It is not bad, it just had the potential to be so much more than it is. 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. 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.
The Girlfriend Experience is obsessed with money, status, cheating, and getting caught. Characters who once seemed significant fade into the background. Steven Soderbergh who has directed countless high profile stars gives Grey nothing to do. Maybe then, more emotions and struggles could have been brought to the table for the actor to share. 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. At 77 minutes, it crawls towards those minutes feeling like two and half hours worth of cinema.
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. 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. "See it with someone you ****" The Girlfriend Experience is another one of Steven Soderbergh's experimental films. And with Soderbergh quarterbacking the whole thing, you can expect slick cinematography, tension, and of course, a fair amount of sex. It is in the style of a movie like Bubble more then a movie like Ocean's 11. Throughout most of the series' 13 episodes, Keough maintains the same dead-eyed stare almost without interruption. Though, like the movie, we doubt any of it will be truly sexy and more likely kind of sad and uncomfortable, so yeah. It wasn't a masterpiece by any stretch, but it was a decent little experiment. However, the show will still be directed by Soderbergh, who between this and The Knick is quite a busy guy for someone who is allegedly retired. I'm always open to movies like The Girlfriend Experience though; especially when someone like Soderbergh is directing. A "sophisticated escort" goes about her life and we watch it take place.
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. Moody hotel room lighting and late nights at the office. She has a boyfriend who is okay with the whole thing, but he seems to want it to stop through his dialogue. She gasps at another point, as if this wouldn't be any logical person's first assumption. Grey does well in the role only because I really do not know if she is acting or not. He hints at it, but doesn't just come out and say it. You might also likeSee More.
It's more just a character driven movie that has some statements to say about the Obama/McCain race and the crumbling economy. The Girlfriend Experience's performances just aren't good enough to create it. A good concept with some important themes, The Girlfriend Experience still falls flat. The Girlfriend Experience premieres in 2016 on Starz. This stoicism can also make Keough sound like an unintentionally comedic robot. These effects only heighten the fact that show already feels like a political thriller. 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. At one point, she asks her older sister if she thinks she could be a sociopath.
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 Photos. "You meet men online? " 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. "I find it to be a waste of time. " It's about the end result at all costs; several of its tangled plotlines get lost and never finish. Soderbergh's Bubble and Van Sant's Elephant and Paranoid Park are movies that come to mind.
"I just don't enjoy spending time with people, " she says at one of the show's many nondescript hotel restaurants. This movie shows the corruption that is within certain parts of society. Nevertheless, she has decided to make the transition to film that leave many people scratching their heads for the reasons. 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. It's long enough to detach viewers from what's really happening: just a shiny metal tool slowly working against flesh. With the doe-eyed innocence of Anastasia Steele. Not as good as Bubble, but still pretty good. 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 Girlfriend Experience premieres on Starz on April 10th and all 13 episodes will be available on Starz On Demand and Starz Play.
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