Review of Girlfriend Experience (2008) by Geraint B — 03 Jan 2011
The Girlfriend Experience is an unpleasant romantic dramedy slumped drunkenly over lazy political commentary and rich bitching. Through a slipshod time shuffled narrative, we're expected to give a shit about two bland emotionless twats.
Like everything else that apes Bret Easton Ellis and misses, it grays out anything remotely intriguing with handheld camera shots and a constant shadow. The stunt casting of porn star Sasha Grey only reinforces that her best work is done up close and from the hips down.
If this masturbatory fetishit was a first time film student's project, it would be execrable but understandable. The fact that it came from Soderbergh makes it inexcusable. If you want to make experimental films, keep that shit on the festival circuit where it belongs.
This review of Girlfriend Experience (2008) was written by Geraint B on 03 Jan 2011.
Girlfriend Experience has generally received mixed reviews.
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