Canadian Film Forum

florina_trifoi · Junior Data inscrierii: 07/Mai/2011 Mesaje: 2

Chloe

,,Chloe” is a movie drama directed by Atom Egoyan and written by Erin Cressida Wilson a professor of dramatic writing at Duke University. In 2009, the film was nominated to the London Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival .
Made in 2009, it’s first stars are Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried and Liam Neeson. It’s considered to be a very solid erotic thriller with strong effects upon human personality but also appreciated for its psychological insights and its ideas about identity and desire in modern life. Firstly, the story seemes to be a common one, nothing unusuall: a cheated wife who wants to punish her husband. In reality is a film with many strange situations, intrigant and passional.
,,Chloe” is a remake after the movie ,,Nathalie” (2003) with Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart and Gerard Depardieu.
Catherine (Julianne Moore) is a respectable gynecologist who is married to the professor of music, David (Liam Neeson). They live in a luxurios residence in Toronto. Apparently she has everything that a woman can dream: money, fame, an attractive husband and a talentated son called Michael (Max Thieriot). Everything changes when David misses the flyght back home and passes the night in New York but also misses his surprise birthday party organised by his wife. Catherine suspects David of having an affair after she sees a cell-phone picture of him embracing a female student. She decides to hire a young prostitute to seduce her husband. The plan is that the beautiful Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) must seduce David in his favourite coffe house and after to report the way he reacts to Catherine. In spite of this, the situation becames complicated and David and Chloe are meeting more and more frequently. The experiment runs out of control so that all three characters are crushed between lies, unfaith and blames. "Chloe" is a prototype of a sexual thriller because of its plot working very well, it's very engaging. The sexual mystery and tension are captivating, and the copious nudity does not even come across as over the top or contrived. There is so much suspense, excitement and mystery to the story. "Chloe" is a very good film with a wow factor and very well acted.

Florina Trifoi
Studii Canadiene, an II