The Girlfriend Experience /Girlfriend Experience/

Written by Ivan Kollmen Friday, 03 July 2009 12:22

Year: 2009
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, 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, Maria Diaz, Daniel Fainman, Adelmo 
Genres: Comedy
Runtime: 77 min.

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"The Girlfriend Experience" is a palate cleanser for director Steven Soderbergh, who embarks on one of these odd "personal" films every few years ("Bubble," "Full Frontal") when his fingers tire of counting "Ocean's" trilogy money. A mood piece on vagaries of whorish behavior, Soderbergh is stuck in full wander mode with this picture, absent the sort of thespian effort that would enliven the cross-eyed atmosphere of disconnect Soderbergh is forever chasing. A personal trainer looking to go into business for himself, Chris (Chris Santos) is having difficulty communicating with his girlfriend, Chelsea (Sasha Grey). A high-end call girl working a colorful list of shy and cultured clients, Chelsea is torn between the pseudo normalcy of her life and relationship with Chris, and her need for personal adventure and expression, often guided by a curiosity with personality sciences. To explain more of the "Girlfriend Experience" plot would a) suggest there's actually more of a plot, and b) force me to run the risk of making the picture sound marginally more exciting than it truly is. With a small budget and the comfort of his highly trained filmmaking reflexes, "Girlfriend" is a cruise control effort from Soderbergh, who steps away from the grind of studio work to take an observational post on the fringes of the sex business. Granted, there's no actual sex in the picture (and a minimal amount of nudity), but the filmmaker enjoys staging the leering, ill at ease interaction of the prostitution industry, albeit classed up here in Chelsea's dream world of high fashion, glossy makeup, and champagne wishes. Instead of the hot-blooded stuff, "Girlfriend" is 100% mope and pout, intended more as a meditative piece for movie scholars than a giving film experience that would require something Soderbergh has always shown disdain for: emotional investment.

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