First, in filming a few days in the life of a high-priced Manhattan call girl in fall 2008 mostly with non-actors, Soderbergh captured the brink of economic collapse, eerily appropriate for a movie in which New York life is seen as a series of negotiable transactions. It is only towards the end that anything happens to upset the equilibrium of Chelsea's life, hinting at what Soderbergh might have achieved with a little more focus and a lot more plot.Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience was intended as the second in his series of quickly made, digitally-shot shoestring experimental movies it still is this, of course, but a pair of circumstances gave it considerably more attention than earlier digital experiment, 2006’s Bubble.
The characters blur into each other, with the exception of one sleazy individual who persuades Chelsea he should get a free session in order to "review" her on his website. It drifts along, as Chelsea goes from booking to booking, listening to her clients' business and personal problems at length - the "girlfriend experience" they are paying for. Despite the subject matter and casting, the movie seems an oddly tepid affair. Sasha Grey, a real-life porn actress, plays Christine, alias Chelsea, who we see balancing domestic life with her gym instructor boyfriend against her work as a high-class escort and prostitute during five days in October 2008 (just before the presidential election and the economic downturn). Steven Soderbergh returns to his roots here, and to the low-budget aesthetics and subject matter of 1989's sex, lies, and videotape, with which he first made his mark.
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