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The Girlfriend Experience

2009 · 77 min

A cool, detached plunge into intimacy as transaction, watching a woman navigate desire and economics with clinical precision.

Genres
Drama
Tagline
See it with someone you ****
Overview
Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, "the girlfriend experience." With her successful business and a devoted, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea thinks she has it made... until a new client rocks her world.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • identity
  • isolation
  • love
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
Written by
Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Starring
Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Philip Eytan, Peter Zizzo, Ron Stein, Marshall Gilman, Michael Roberts, Jim Kempner
Music
Ross Godfrey
Cinematography
Steven Soderbergh
Runtime
77 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, French

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