She gives nothing of herself away, always asks open questions, is constantly steering the conversation away from herself. Watching Chelsea (her working name) on the job is one of the fascinations of the film. Sex might be involved, but it’s not necessarily. This involves her going around with them, to fancy restaurants, to art galleries, all the time behaving as if she is in fact their loving girlfriend.
It’s not the point of the film, which is about other types of packages – the tumescent one that a male client wants to insert into the woman he’s bought by the hour, and the emotional one the female offers in return.ĭirector Steven Soderbergh’s casting coup is to get Sasha Grey, a real porn star, to play the high end hooker in well tailored suits and designer shades who offers “the girlfriend experience” to men who have the $2,000 a night to pay for it. Just casually, early on, as a bunch of guys are discussing the President’s bail-out package. The first proper credit crunch movie out of Hollywood is also one of the first to mention Barack Obama.
The Girlfriend Experience (2009, dir: Steven Soderbergh) In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles to go to college and in 1981 made his first political speech, urging his college to cut its investment ties to the apartheid regime in South Africa.
The family lived in Jakarta until, in 1971, Barack moved back to Hawaii on his own, aged ten, to live with his grandparents. Her husband moved back to Indonesia in 1966 and Barack’s mother moved her family to join him there in 1967, having completed her anthropology degree. His parents were Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr, the former an anthropologist from Wichita, Texas, the latter a student from Kenya who would go on to graduate from Harvard before returning to Kenya where he would become a government economist.īarack Jr’s parents separated when he was only days old and his mother moved, first to Seattle, then back to Hawaii, where she met her second husband, Leo Soetoro, and married again in 1965. On this day in 1961, Barack Hussein Obama II was born, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
A movie for every day of the year – a good one
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