(In a sly joke on Soderbergh’s part, this sleazebag is played, superbly, by movie critic Glenn Kenny.) Periodically, Soderbergh cuts to a scene of Chris aboard a private jet to Vegas on a junket financed by some wealthy clients.
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A porn-site webmaster convinces her to sleep with him in exchange for free publicity, then posts a snidely negative “review” of her sexual performance. A reporter (played by journalist Mark Jacobson) tries unsuccessfully to get past Chelsea’s mask of composure. Otherwise, its structure is episodic and loosely achronological. The outcome of that plotline-will Chelsea go through with the trip? Will she lose Chris if she does?-is the closest the movie comes to suspense. Fans of Sasha Grey’s oeuvre will be disappointed to learn that this unrated movie contains no sex at all-the most we get is a seconds-long glimpse of Grey’s (refreshingly unaugmented) nude body.Ĭhelsea’s live-in boyfriend, Chris (Chris Santos), is a personal trainer who’s fine with his girlfriend’s highly lucrative profession until she decides to go away for the weekend with a client she’s started to care about. Chelsea logs each transaction in her computer diary in between meetings, detailing her designer outfits in an affectless voice-over: “I wore a Michael Kors dress and shoes and La Perla lingerie underneath.” Her job is to provide her clients not just with sex but with the full-service “girlfriend experience”: They take in movies, drink wine, have (stilted) conversations, and share breakfast before she hops in a limo and heads to her next meeting. Grey isn’t exactly an actress, but her aura of impenetrable blankness makes her a curiously entrancing protagonist. Despite its meager production values, The Girlfriend Experience looks sleek and appealing it takes place in the same copper-toned cocoon of poshness that envelops the Ocean’s Eleven franchise, as Grey’s character, $2,000-an-hour call girl Chelsea, flits in and out of four-star restaurants and designer boutiques in Manhattan.
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