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1. THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE 2009 NETFLIX MOVIE
2. THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE 2009 NETFLIX PORTABLE
3. THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE 2009 NETFLIX PROFESSIONAL

THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE 2009 NETFLIX MOVIE

The movie follows Chelsea from one encounter to the next, and most of those that are not on the clock might be characterized as business meetings and strategy sessions. But “The Girlfriend Experience” is less interested in sex than in money, which is shown to be a far more powerful and dangerous source of obsession, confusion, passion and calculation.

THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE 2009 NETFLIX PROFESSIONAL

Grey’s screen performances have been almost entirely in hard-core pornography, and this professional background, along with her character’s profession, adds an aura of titillation to the movie. Only when cash changes hands in the morning do we perceive the transactional nature of the affair. For all we know, these two attractive people chatting unhurriedly over dinner, then kissing and sipping wine on the couch before making their way to bed, are lovers of long standing and deep attachment. The first scenes, of Chelsea in the company of a handsome, well-mannered customer, are presented as a kind of optical illusion. What she sells instead, or in addition, is a simulation of intimacy. Sometimes there is no sex at all, as when one of them is especially anxious about the collapsing financial system. She offers her rich clients more than sex with an obliging, pretty young woman. She is also a commodity in this rarefied market, a prostitute whose specialty is alluded to in the title of the movie. Every frame swims with signs of dearly bought, casually enjoyed luxury as the camera makes its way from high-end boutiques to jewelbox hotels, exclusive restaurants and the cabin of a private plane.Ĭhelsea (Sasha Grey), the main character — more case study than heroine — is not only a consumer of top-of-the line merchandise, keeping a careful ledger of the clothes and accessories she has purchased and worn. Soderbergh used in “Che,” but nonetheless “The Girlfriend Experience” has a sleek, tailored look appropriate to its setting, which is the moneyed precincts of Manhattan at the height — and most likely the end — of the recent gilded age.

The film’s means are modest, not unlike the guerrilla techniques Mr.

THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE 2009 NETFLIX PORTABLE

Steven Soderbergh shot “The Girlfriend Experience” over a few weeks last fall, with a relatively low budget, a portable high-definition video camera and a mostly nonprofessional cast.