And with Soderbergh quarterbacking the whole thing, you can expect slick cinematography, tension, and of course, a fair amount of sex. This movie has so many flaws that are hidden by beautiful cinematography and the casting choice of Sasha Grey. The Girlfriend Experience's performances just aren't good enough to create it. "See it with someone you ****" The Girlfriend Experience is another one of Steven Soderbergh's experimental films. 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. A good concept with some important themes, The Girlfriend Experience still falls flat.
It is in the style of a movie like Bubble more then a movie like Ocean's 11. Steven Soderbergh's latest lo-fi production is strikingly crafted but emotionally vague. The Girlfriend Experience is a show about having explicit but perfected sex in beautiful hotel rooms. At 77 minutes, it crawls towards those minutes feeling like two and half hours worth of cinema. Steven Soderbergh's 2009 movie The Girlfriend Experience worked in large part because of the lead performance of then-porn star Sasha Grey.
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. A "sophisticated escort" goes about her life and we watch it take place. With the doe-eyed innocence of Anastasia Steele. She gasps at another point, as if this wouldn't be any logical person's first assumption. 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. Almost all of the show is shot in apartments that look more like showrooms than homes, and high-ceilinged hotels with overpriced restaurants attached. The Girlfriend Experience premieres on Starz on April 10th and all 13 episodes will be available on Starz On Demand and Starz Play. Their vanity and greed corrupts them to the point where some of them cheat on their wives. 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. The only thing that is lacking in The Girlfriend Experience to create that same realistic effect are the performances. "I find it to be a waste of time. " 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. Characters who once seemed significant fade into the background.
At one point, she asks her older sister if she thinks she could be a sociopath. Grey is not completely responsible for her stale performance. 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). "You meet men online? " Aug 02, 2011The Girlfriend Experience feels like an experiment in film-making. Now, The Girlfriend Experience will live on, but as a TV show on Starz and without Grey in the lead role. These type of experimental movies can be some of the most realistic movies you'll ever watch. Though, like the movie, we doubt any of it will be truly sexy and more likely kind of sad and uncomfortable, so yeah. 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.
It is still pretty good considering how Soderbergh filmed this as well as the fact that this does feel like an authentic look at a major event, but his inability to get inside his character's heads as well as not knowing exactly how to end his film mars its enough to say it is not worth an automatic recommendation. Keough's portrayal of Christine is calculated, cold, and pristine, like a revamped Patrick Bateman. It's long enough to detach viewers from what's really happening: just a shiny metal tool slowly working against flesh. The plot is really not there. Sure, since that's what you obviously want us to think, the audience answers. ) Long, patient shots seem to slow down time, even as more than a year passes over the course of the series. It's extremely short and also feels like the audience is distanced from the characters. Jul 08, 2011The beauty of the movie lies in the way the scenes appear as being stolen stills from reality. It wasn't a masterpiece by any stretch, but it was a decent little experiment. Read critic reviews.
She has a boyfriend who is okay with the whole thing, but he seems to want it to stop through his dialogue. 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). It is not bad, it just had the potential to be so much more than it is. 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. 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. 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. She wasn't half bad, and because of that, it's the same with the movie as a whole; it wasn't half bad. These men actually pay another woman to have sex with them when they have wives at home. While her escort friend talks about her work, Christine asks, "And you have sex with them? " Directors Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz told The Verge they shot with almost no lighting save what came into each scene naturally. 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 movie doesn't do the audiences any favors when it comes to excitement. You might also likeSee More. Not as good as Bubble, but still pretty good.
Steven Soderbergh who has directed countless high profile stars gives Grey nothing to do. 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. It's more just a character driven movie that has some statements to say about the Obama/McCain race and the crumbling economy. These effects only heighten the fact that show already feels like a political thriller. A high-priced escort is basically a hooker. This stoicism can also make Keough sound like an unintentionally comedic robot. The Girlfriend Experience Photos.
She stares blankly at the screen the entire time showing no emotion in a role that does not give her much to do. It's about the end result at all costs; several of its tangled plotlines get lost and never finish.