The Girlfriend Experience Articles

Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience (top); 9 by Shane Acker (middle); Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis in Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (bottom) The 2009 edition Stockholm International Film Festival attracted the two-decade-old festival's biggest audience ever: 130,000 moviegoers. The Stockholm festival's 20th anniversary was celebrated with screenings on ice, and the presence of international celebrities such as Lifetime Achievement Award winner Susan Sarandon, Luc [...]

Steven Soderbergh's drama The Girlfriend Experience, starring Sasha Grey as a Manhattan escort, Chris Santos as her boyfriend, and Philip Eytan as her potential lover, opens in UK cinemas on Dec. 4. Photos: Revolver Entertainment Click on the photos to enlarge them. Chris Santos Chris Santos Steven Soderbergh

Set at the time of the 2008 US presidential elections, The Girlfriend Experience follows Manhattan escort Chelsea (21-year-old Sasha Grey, voted best female performer in XXX films last year), a savvy businesswoman who offers the "girlfriend experience" to her clients: dinner and movie dates, chats, sex — and even that most indecent of habits, kissing. Sounds like fun? Perhaps it is, but then there's both [...]