I was one of the lucky few who managed to finagle a ticket to the Tribeca screening of Steven Soderbergh's latest "indie" (read: Not Ocean's 14th) film last Tuesday night. I was interested in his feature, The Girlfriend Experience, for two reasons:
1) It had been getting major hype for including a cast of non-actors save the lead, Sasha Grey, who is infamous for being perhaps the first hyper-literate porn star ever billed as such (She once wanted to use Anna Karina as her stage name), and
2) Because I hold a deep, somewhat dubious belief that one day Soderbergh will work through whatever gender-related issues he started with Sex, Lies and Videotape and manage to avoid becoming another Neil Labute (In the Company of Men to The Wicker Man in the span of a decade!) lazy misogynist. Boy, was I wrong.
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