Julia Leigh directs Emily Browning, Rachael Blake and Ewen Leslie in this Australian drama where a young woman takes a part-time high-paying job with a mysterious group that caters to rich men who like the company of drugged nude girls.

I watched this on the train from Amsterdam to Munich. And I’m not going to lie it was a terrible selection. Shines a brutal light on the exploitation of the gig economy, comparing pretty much any shift to sex work. Yet it is all quite blank and vacant beyond the blunt politics, both sexual and economic. It is feminist horror but marketed on the opportunity to ogle the doll-like body of Sucker Punch’s Browning. Not sure who gets much of anything from this.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

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