Watch This Now: The Murmurcore Brilliance of Starz’s ‘The Girlfriend Experience’
Steven Soderbergh's 2009's feature The Girlfriend Experience was a pretty good movie, for what it was: as a vehicle to "introduce" the indie festival crowd to porn star Sasha Grey--a sensation not unlike, I imagine, a wife "introducing" her husband to his mistress at a cocktail reception and he has to pretend he hasn't already seen her naked-- it was a cool romp through the Windy City, accompanied by a lot of pre-Birdman jazz drumming and a muted color palette to better accentuate Ms. Grey's somewhat limited acting range as a high-end call girl with a possible mood disorder.
