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Information
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 77 min.
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 5.5
- Votes *
- 13,063
- Checks
- 1,480
- Favs
- 54
- Dislikes
- 78
- Favs/checks
- 3.6% (1:27)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
I like the fact that Stephen Soderbergh makes big movies like Ocean's Eleven to finance smaller, experimental projects, and I like it even when the experiment fails. The Girlfriend Experience, starring porn star Sasha Grey and many non-actors, is about a high-end escort who provides an intimate and unique service AND is in an (albeit open) committed relationship at the same time. It's shot in a strict documentary style, though no camera would ever have been allowed in those situations, and allows the "actors" to improvise guided conversations (similar to Bubble). I admire the non-linear editing the most, but quite frankly, many sequences come across as tedious. Most of "Christine"'s clients are rich businessmen who only talk about the crumbling economy (so I guess tedium is in part the point) and I find little as boring as real life business talk. It gets better in the last act, enough for a recommendation, but the documentary stiffness and dull conversations up front make this film hard to get through. The commentary track features both Soderbergh and Grey, and includes an interesting discussion of adult filmmaking vs. more mainstream work, and a completely different edit of the film that uses less whining about the economy and which I consequently like better. If I'd watched that first, I'd have been inclined to be a fan. Or perhaps the more I'm exposed to the film, the more nuances I get and the better I like it in any edit. Not sure. 8 years 8 months ago -
Malfumax
Sure some of the shots are nice, avant-garde, the music is fitting and the story's told in a way to make it seem more in depth than it really is.
The acting is stale, seemingly improvised, but it doesn't help that the cast seems so uninterested in the plot that might not actually have a point to it. 11 years 7 months ago -
