Why do men pay for sex? An entertaining peek into the world of prostitution from the john’s point of view.
Daniel doesn’t understand why he can’t have a relationship with his girlfriend Maddy and date prostitutes for fun on the side – a practice he calls GFE (Girlfriend Experience). But when Maddy dumps him and Daniel starts purchasing GFE from a mysterious prostitute, the lines between sex and love, fantasy and reality, begin to blur. Sometimes love can be lot more expensive than sex.
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Thanks for sharing this. Will try to get this book.
Comment by hessedjoy — 01/09/2009 @ 13:23
Hi hessedjoy,
Thank-you for writing. Pietrobruno’s GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE 2008 is a movie, not a book! It’s a feature-length movie and it’s out on DVD or pirated on the net. Hope you get a chance to see it. Hope you like it.
Comment by pietrobruno — 01/09/2009 @ 21:56
Love is more expansive then sex. You are saying right. Thanks for sharing this.
Comment by rehan — 29/10/2009 @ 14:43
Great affair, did not thought this was going to be so interesting when I saw the title!
Comment by whomzoody — 12/12/2009 @ 13:13
Hey Womzoody,
I only just found your comment. Thank-you for posting. I’m glad you like the movie.
Comment by pietrobruno — 24/04/2010 @ 11:14
wow… as someone who has become a regular sex purchaser i found this to be a very therapeutic film.
the research is astoundingly accurate and insightful.
from an impact perspective, i’m curious as to why the face of adrian was finally shown? i thought that was genius… if only because it made me wonder what the film maker was attempting to achieve (could be so many things).
thanks for a great film!
Comment by justAnotherJohn — 13/07/2010 @ 09:25
Hello Just Another John,
When an experienced client likes this film, I take it as the very highest compliment: I am so relieved that you liked Girlfriend Experience!
As I’ve said elsewhere, there are as many different kinds of johns as there are different kinds of men. Similarly, there are many many stories to tell about the john. I’ve made one tale.
So, your question is, why did I show Adrian’s face at the end? Typically in movies about prostitutes and women the male main character and the film’s viewers are on a quest to discover the True identity of the woman. Who is she really? At the end of Girlfriend Experience we see the Real Woman when we see the girl’s actual face BUT does seeing her face tell us anything at all about her. We see her face and yet, perhaps she is even more illusory now. Even more unreal. Because when we see her face, we learn that her name is Nana. This name suggests that she does not exist as a real person at all. She is a historical, artistic, social, cultural construction – she is Emile Zola’s archetypal Western courtesan: the unknowable, elusive, mysterious, enticing Nana.
In contradiction to everything that I’ve just written above, seeing her face (and learning that she is underage) also suggests that Daniel has been caught by Reality. When he first moved-in with Adrian the reality of her physicality was making him claustrophobic and uncomfortable. At the very end, reality jumps in to cause his downfall.
So, there you go: two contradictory answers as to why we see Adrian/Nana’s face at the end.
I also knew that the audience needed to be satisfied with a glimpse. The tease lasts 83 mins. You get a release at the end. A very brief and unsatisfying one!
(And there may be still more reasons as to why I chose to show Adrian/Nana’s face at the end. The odd thing about making films is that it is such highly mediated form and yet … it is still so unconscious. It’s a weird process).
THANK-YOU so much for posting. I’m glad you found this blog. Please tell your fellow hobbyists to check-out Girlfriend Experience.
Take care,
Ileana
Comment by pietrobruno — 13/07/2010 @ 11:40
This is a deeply compassionate and moving film.
The ending was astonishing. I paused the movie and replayed it slowly to see “Adrian’s” face — the vixen and tempest of sexual power. Yet there was just a young woman, perhaps even a girl, a frail person incapable of living up to what Daniel has obsessively, carefully imagined.
And to be named “Nana,” the synonym for grandmother in so many cultures!
The film reminded me of the excellent story “Sarah Cole: A Love Story” by Russell Banks which I believe covers similar territory — though in a completely different setting.
Bravo! I really hope this film gets wider attention and I’m really looking forward to your next project.
Comment by mr trog — 21/08/2010 @ 18:36
Hello Mr. Trog,
I’m so glad that you liked Girlfriend Experience, and thank-you for commenting. And yes, I should check-out Russell Banks novels and short stories. Thx for the info.
Comment by pietrobruno — 22/08/2010 @ 14:51
I’ll try also the book and the movie… thank you!
Comment by annunci escort — 12/05/2011 @ 02:25