![]() ![]() ![]() “Language is the house man lives in,” notes the main character of Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her-which, along with Vivre sa vie, provides TGE’s prostitution-as-metaphor template. What The Girlfriend Experience-co-scripted by Brian Koppelman and David Levien (who also co-wrote Ocean’s 13) but incorporating improv-does best is capture the way language has been vitiated by meaningless marketing-speak. The parallels between Chelsea’s profession, the world’s oldest, and Chris’s, one of the world’s newest, become obvious: “Let’s have you look at a bigger package… I don’t think this relationship is going to end anytime soon,” Chris says, trying to goad a client into buying more one-hour sessions. Personal-trainer beau Chris (Chris Santos) is enraged that she’s going away for the weekend with a client Chelsea, an acolyte of “personology,” thinks she may have a special connection with him because their “birthdays match up really well.” And she has a real-boyfriend experience to deal with. But Chelsea has business worries of her own: launching her boutique, optimizing search-engine results for her site, competing with other working girls, receiving a scathing review from an online hobbyist called the Erotic Connoisseur (former Premiere critic Glenn Kenny). I wore Kiki de Montparnasse lingerie,”Ĭhelsea recalls affectlessly, one of several times that high-end goods, eateries, and shops are either name-checked or actually seen. Congress has just passed the bailout Biden and Palin are debating and expensive escort Chelsea (porn star Sasha Grey) frequently finds herself having to assuage the money anxieties of her upscale clientele. Soderbergh’s second movie (after 2005’s Bubble) to be shot-by the director himself-in high-def video using a mostly nonprofessional cast for 2929 Entertainment, and the second (after Che) to use the Red One camera, The Girlfriend Experience was shot in 16 days last October, almost entirely in New York City (the Hudson Valley and Las Vegas have bit parts). In The Girlfriend Experience, the director takes your money and gives you a quick hand-job. Sex workers who advertise “the girlfriend experience,” will, for the right price, tongue-kiss you, cuddle, listen to your boring stories about setting up a 529 plan for your kid, your thoughts about Man on Wire, your worries about whether your next TV show will get produced. ![]()
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