{"id":7979,"date":"2010-02-22T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2010-02-23T01:22:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T09:22:45","slug":"chloe-atom-egoyan-2009-francecanada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7979","title":{"rendered":"Chloe (Atom Egoyan, 2009): France\/Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Rowan-George Smith<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at the Metro 4, Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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Cunning Hot Lustful Observant Enticing<\/p>\n

Chloe, a wildly twisted and erotic film directed by Canadian Atom Egoyan, is a complex thriller with a stellar performance from the gorgeous Julianne Moore.\u00a0 Joined by Irish actor, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried in the title role.<\/p>\n

Set in Toronto, Catherine (Julianne Moore), a doctor becomes insecure about the attention David (Liam Neeson), her husband, a music professor displays towards his female students.\u00a0 She suspects him of cheating.\u00a0 Enter Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), a sexy prostitute, with no life but her work.\u00a0 Catherine hires Chloe to simply meet her husband and instructs her to only talk with him.\u00a0 When Chloe reports back, Catherine wants her to see David again.\u00a0 Chloe then meets with Catherine and confides to her about her recent intimate involvement she had with her husband.\u00a0 She shares all the specific details as if Catherine is her best friend.\u00a0 Catherine is fumed at Chloe and says, \u201cI didn\u2019t tell you to do that.\u201d\u00a0 This business transaction becomes too involved, yet Catherine continues it as she becomes obsessed with Chloe\u2019s stories and vicariously lives through them in a puzzling way.\u00a0 This arrangement between these women intensifies and Catherine finds herself allured by the vampy and demented Chloe, she attempts to pull away to Chloe\u2019s dismay, telling her, \u201cThis business transaction is over!\u201d\u00a0 This transaction has only just begun.<\/p>\n

Liam Neeson lost his wife Natasha Richardson (almost a year ago), in a skiing accident while he was shooting this film.\u00a0 The brave and handsome Irish actor continued his work on Chloe one week after the tragic accident.\u00a0 Neeson portrays David honestly as a loving father and husband.\u00a0 He strikes gold with both Moore and Seyfried, with magnetic chemistry with both leading ladies.\u00a0 He displays thoughtfulness, grace and great sincerity in this role.\u00a0 Julianne Moore shines as Catherine, the insecure wife and good doctor, she depicts great vulnerability and sensitivity to this character.\u00a0 She\u2019s sexy, smart, and her work is more than memorizing.\u00a0 Moore delivers an authentic performance; we see the great range this gem of an actress embodies.\u00a0 And the great thing about Moore, she is definitely a risk taker though and though.\u00a0 The recently famed Amanda Seyfried gave a decent interpretation as Chloe, however, her delivery often felt labored and predictable.\u00a0 Overall, her performance was banal, but in great company, she managed to look good.\u00a0 A more seasoned or established actress would have been preferred, like Lauren Ambrose, Scarlette Johansson, or Mena Suvari.<\/p>\n

Chloe is based on the French film Nathalie, directed by Anne Fontaine, and Erin Cressida Wilson wickedly wrote this screenplay.\u00a0 Chloe director, Atom Egoyan takes the story to Toronto and acknowledges the city throughout the film.\u00a0 This was his first film fully financed outside of Canada, making it the first foreign-financed film to shoot in Toronto.\u00a0 It was refreshing to see modern day Toronto beautifully captured by cinematographer Paul Sarossy.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s much clearer as to why the film was set in Toronto.\u00a0 Egoyan also a master of directing opera productions brilliantly incorporates opera-like styles into this dangerous liaison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Rowan-George Smith. \u00a0Viewed at the Metro 4, Santa Barbara Film Festival. Cunning Hot Lustful Observant Enticing Chloe, a wildly twisted and erotic film directed by Canadian Atom Egoyan, is a complex thriller with a stellar performance from the gorgeous Julianne Moore.\u00a0 Joined by Irish actor, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried in the title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}