CHLOE
USA/France
2009
95 minutes
Suspicious that her husband may be having an affair, an insecure gynecologist hires a high end prostitute to seduce him and report back to her. What starts as an elegant sex drama aiming at an oblique metaphor of storytelling and manipulation, with a superb lead performance, collapses in the third act through a sharp turn towards hackneyed thriller tropes.
Starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried; Max Thieriot.
Directed by Atom Egoyan; produced by Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, Jeffrey Clifford; screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson, based on the film Nathalie... directed by Anne Fontaine and written by Philippe Blasband, Jacques Fieschi, ms. Fontaine and François-Olivier Rousseau; music by Mychael Danna; director of photography (Deluxe), Paul Sarossy; production designer, Phillip Barker; costume designer, Debra Hanson; film editor, Susan Shipton.
A Studiocanal presentation of a Montecito Picture Company production. (US distributor, Sony Pictures Classics. World sales, Studiocanal.)
Screened: distruibutor advance press screening, Zon Lusomundo screening room, Lisbon, December 28th 2010.
2009
95 minutes
Suspicious that her husband may be having an affair, an insecure gynecologist hires a high end prostitute to seduce him and report back to her. What starts as an elegant sex drama aiming at an oblique metaphor of storytelling and manipulation, with a superb lead performance, collapses in the third act through a sharp turn towards hackneyed thriller tropes.
Starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried; Max Thieriot.
Directed by Atom Egoyan; produced by Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, Jeffrey Clifford; screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson, based on the film Nathalie... directed by Anne Fontaine and written by Philippe Blasband, Jacques Fieschi, ms. Fontaine and François-Olivier Rousseau; music by Mychael Danna; director of photography (Deluxe), Paul Sarossy; production designer, Phillip Barker; costume designer, Debra Hanson; film editor, Susan Shipton.
A Studiocanal presentation of a Montecito Picture Company production. (US distributor, Sony Pictures Classics. World sales, Studiocanal.)
Screened: distruibutor advance press screening, Zon Lusomundo screening room, Lisbon, December 28th 2010.
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