Chloe

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Marilou Jares says...

Okay so i had imagined something a taf bit different. But when i recieved this product i watched that night and thought it was amazing, it had such a talednted cast, and amazing story line, and great acting. This movie is deffinatly not a family movie, but a great one to watch by yourself or with a date. This movie is truely amazing and i will deffinatly be telling my freind's and family about this gem!

Posted on November 28, 2011

Danuta Ragain says...

I saw a trailer of this movie on the internet and it was the kind of movie that I like.It's a story with mystery and turns out in the end with a twist.It keeps you guessing and wondering the whole way through.Liam Neeson knows how to pick out movies.He's always in movies that are like this.

Posted on November 28, 2011

Natacha Finnicum says...

This film tells a story about a young beautiful girl who seems to have become immune to love, wrapped up in her imagination of being a chamelon to those who would become clients in her world of selling her self. Living out the fantasy of another. She is young and comes across this way in her actions and her speech. She is not really manifesting sexuality in her movements and energy but she is interesting and her character draws you in as well as her physical appearance. She meets a female gynocologist who lives a life of seeming apartness from her husband and son. The two ladies share an intimate moment in a restaurant bathroom. Their connection is brief but feels pronounced. It is a different coming together not, a normal interaction, so each can remember its taking place. The doctor is played by Moore, who is again a lonely beautiful woman who doesn't reflect much joy in life. She loves her husband who is played by Neeson, who comes across the opposite in his dealings with others. He is jovial and playful in his career of college professor. His students find him appealing and want to bring him down to their level and he abides. The film starts right in showing the insecurity of the wife towards her mate's flirtations and lateness from work. The strife builds as her insecurity becomes an obsession. An obsession that involves the lovely girl who she meets and continues to find encounters, paying her to come on to Neeson to see how he responds. Throughout this somewhat twisty tale the two women find a sexual tie in the hearing of how her hubby takes the bait with Chole. The tension and restraint of the affair is so well portrayed by Moore. Chole displays flat affect but it is a cover for large insecurity which is seen at the end of the film. Neeson's part also grapples with emotion, we see him as a fun loving personality yet at home he seems wracked with distance from his family. The lack of intimacy between them leads to the sexual acting out. I love Atom E. he is such a great storyteller and chooses material that draws you in. If you have a chance see the movie The Sweet Hereafter, it is one of the best films I have seen. The things I liked in this film, I loved the clothes and the style of the young girl, I liked how she used her imagination, I liked the city where they lived, it rang with fun, I liked the greenhouse and all the places available to sightsee, and I liked the coffeehouses that were all over, used as meeting place for clandestine conversations.

Posted on November 28, 2011

Doretha Gilman says...

I'm a sucker for any film with Julianne Moore (A Single Man), and I'm a Liam Neeson fan, too, as in Taken (Single-Disc Extended Edition).After watching Amanda Seyfried in Mamma Mia! The Movie (Widescreen), I became intrigued by her skills as well.



I thought about the aspects of this film that appealed to me the most.I noticed that Julianne Moore's characterization of the wife suspecting her husband was somewhat unusual.She was detached, unemotional, and almost as if she were totally unaffected by the outcome, whatever it might be.



But as we drew further into her psyche and her connections, I began to realize that this somewhat "scientific" approach was in character for Catherine, the doctor; the woman, the betrayed wife, would appear later.At that time, we would see her feelings, her insecurities, and how much she mourned the connection she once had with her husband.



What we do learn, too, is that Chloe's version of events, as she describes them to Catherine, are not necessarily the truth.Perhaps it is the truth as she sees it. We come to understand her motivations more as we near the end of the story.



Psychological suspense keeps this film moving, taking us to some unexpected places.



What will Chloe do in the end to ratchet up the thrills for the viewers?And how far will Catherine go to protect what is hers?



This is not a movie for the faint of heart or those who like pretty Hollywood endings.But I was not bored during any part of this one, and as the thrills unfolded, I was excited and rooting for more.



I loved the settings, too, and could tell right away that this was not an American city.At the end, I learned that it was filmed in Toronto.



I would give Chloe four stars.

Posted on November 28, 2011

Jarrod Levendosky says...

A few months ago, I bought a copy of The Road and, as usual, when I first explore a new Sony disc, the first thing I like to look at is the trailer gallery (Sony always has the best). The very first trailer was for Chloe, the new Atom Egoyan flick.Now I was intriqued.Egoyan has been one of my favorite directors since I watched The Sweet Hereafter.Plus it had both Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried, two of the sexiest women in the biz right now.So I knew I had to see it.



Fast forward to just last night.Around 2am, and having nothing better to do, I decided to finally pop it in the machine and I must say, I was pretty much kept on the edge of my seat throughout most of the flick.



The story goes that Julianne Moore plays the wife of a popular music professor.Their marriage has apparently gone stale since he tends to try and stay out of town with his students and, it seems, has no sexual feelings towards her any more.Even their son appears to dislike her.One night while at dinner, she meets a seemingly shy young girl who, in reality, is a call girl.From here, Julianne hatches a plan to see if this girl, Chloe, can seduce her husband.She is to meet him and report back to her at the end of each session.Trouble is, when you play with fire, you end of getting burned.



I really like the look and feel to this movie.The characters, especially our two leading ladies, were well rounded.Liam Neeson turns in a fairly good performance but, sadly, still appears to be coping with the lost of real life wife, Natshia Richardson who died not to long before this film was completed.It seems weird for Atom Egoyan to be helming this project.This doesn't seem to be his normal subgenre.You would think, giving the whole infidelity angle, that Chloe would be more up Adrian Lyne's alley which it does seem given that the third act does take more of a Fatal Attraction/Poison Ivy/Obsessed turn which, in my opion, drug the movie down.Had he simply stuck with the idea of being lured in to Chloe's charm and powers of persuasion, the movie may have been a pretty successful hit.Not saying that this movie was bad, far from it.In fact, I'm surprised that this movie was released straight to dvd with such star power while Obsessed was given a theatrical run given that that movie had the whole feel of a D2D.Still, its worth at least a peak.

Posted on November 29, 2011

Takisha Foulk says...

A chance meeting sets some things into motion - one of those being the testing of a husband's faith. See, a married man misses a flight home, missing his surprise party in the process. This makes his wife wonder what he was up to, and a text with a picture of a young girl makes her wonder even more. solution: in the bathroom, on a night out, the wife meets a girl named Chloe. She seems nice enough and claims to be clean and that sets the wife's mind into motion. she decides to take Chloes and get her to tempt her husband. The problem is that she doesn't know Chloe or know anything about what she wants at all, making things turn out to be - complex and then some.



When I sat down to watch Chloe, I thought I had already seen a million movies like it. The cheating husband and the not-so-blind wife, the person hired to bring it all into focus, and then the drama. The problem was that this is not the story at all - it only seems to be.



I personally liked the cast to this movie and, honestly, I thought the twist with excellent. I cannot talk about it much, but can say with certainty that I really didn't see it all coming. There were a few parts i thought I knew and a few i could have guessed, but this movie was complex because humans are complex. It also talks about so many things that we forget; sometimes there can be purity in so many things, emotions in even the toughest seeming rock, and when we forget that we sometimes forget pieces of who we want to be.



If you have yet to see this movie, you shouldn't wait. It is good and it is interesting and it can surprise you. I watched with singularity in my focus, not knowing, and the end paid me back for that. I personally laughed when i noticed how wrong I was, too, and thought "I am soo glad I caught this." Watch it and see what I mean - you will be drawn into it all when you see the thing in action.

Posted on November 29, 2011

Yajaira Mundy says...

A simple premise for a film, marriage gone stale, wife feels threatened, husband is overworked and over stressed. Wife, in this case, is Julianne Moore, and husband is Liam Neeson. What could be wrong?



Julianne plays Dr Catherine Stewart, an Ob/Gyn. Her husband is David, a college professor. Catherine suspects David of having affairs with his students, and she hires a professional call girl played by Amanda Seyfried. Catherine wants Chloe to entice David to see if he has an interest in an affair. The entire substance of this seems so far-fetched. Chloe reports the conversations and action back to Catherine and apparently they are a turn on to Catherine.In the midst of this, Catherine and David's son who is an intelligent musically gifted son. However, his mother has interfered in his life and it seems he will not forgive her. He brings his girlfriends into the home and they stay overnight. Communication of any kind seems to be gone. At one point Catherine admits she would do anything for her son. At this point as the film becomes complicated, the action picks up. Emotions run high and life becomes difficult. Catherine is acting out of control and control is something she must have. David is confused and wonders what is going on in their lives. This family whose life has been stale comes undone and tragedy ensues. The ending is really anti-climatic, but the graduation party of the son brings to light an interesting object and we wonder have we misjudged the entire film.



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Posted on December 2, 2011

Morgan Jodha says...

Atom Egoyan's "Chloe" will not appeal to all tastes, despite a healthy dose of eroticism (and tasteful nudity), as it is really an examination of love, aging and insecurity, and how our imagination fills in the blanks when passion wanes. The thriller aspect is actually quite predictable, and a bit disappointing, but it doesn't take away from what truly makes the film work; the terrific triangle of Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and, in a breakout performance, Amanda Seyfried, in the title role.



Moore is a gynecologist slipping into middle age, with a still-hunky college professor husband (Neeson), and a teen-aged son who hates her (Max Thieriot, in a role which, unfortunately, largely ended up on the cutting room floor). When hubby skips out on his surprise birthday party, and she finds a photo of him with a sexy student on his cell phone, she assumes the worst; rather than simply confront him, she hires a cute young prostitute (Seyfried), to seduce him, and prove his infidelity. Seyfried confirms Moore's darkest fears, saying that he, albeit reluctantly, responded to her advances. Rather than cut things off, however, Moore, aroused by the thought of her husband's actions, pays to continue the seduction. A bizarre romantic triangle plays out; the hooker provides erotically-charged, graphic details, while becoming increasingly attracted to the wife, who, in her anguished, yet obvious physical arousal by the accounts, responds to the sexual advances of the hooker. Seyfried conveys all this with a combination of sexual savvy and wide-eyed wonder, and watching her bend the sophisticated Moore to her own sexual will, leading to a very intimate, well-played seduction scene, is ultimately, the real climax of the film.



Unfortunately, the plot then slides into melodrama, involving the husband and son, loads of guilt, unrequited love, and predictable tragedy. It is a let-down, as I said, but certainly doesn't ruin the overall pleasure of this film.



Atom Egoyan's films are always well-crafted and provocative; this is a rare case of the director working from someone else's screenplay (by "Secretary" screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson), and the end result, while flawed, is still superior to most of what I've seen on screens over the past couple of years. Certainly worth owning!

Posted on December 2, 2011

Lilli Scadlock says...

Atom Egoyan's new film Chloe tells a story that's been told many times before, the tale of the woman scorned. But the new perspective that Egoyan brings to the erotic thriller genre, that makes it more original and provocative than any film I've seen this year.



Julianne Moore's portrayal of the heroine, Catherine Stewart, is near perfect. Moore has really been at the top of her game lately. In A Single Man, she played a character that she also brought great depth to, despite having only about fifteen minutes of air-time. In Chloe, she plays an upper middle-class gynecologist, who has been married to David (Liam Neeson) for many years. She suspects that he's having an affair, after noticing his flirtacious banter with a waitress, and after missing a flight, and his surprise birthday party. And just like that, her long simmering suspicions rise to the surface.



Finding no answer other than infidelity, she hires an escort, played by Amanda Seyfried, in the title role, to seduce her husband, to see his reaction. She finds herself "directing" she and her husband's encounters, giving Chloe notes on how to react to certain things that her husband says and does. Ergo, the fireworks start, and needless to say, lies are told and people get hurt.



This is Julianne Moore's best work in years. She has a knack for giving emotionally devastating performances, and she's in top form here. Her ability to say so much with saying so little, never ceases to amaze me. But the true star here is Amanda Seyfried, who gives the performance of her career. Her repertoire includes mostly comedies, like Mean Girls and Mamma Mia, but the amount of dramatic depth that she brings to the table is unbelievable. Playing a complicated character, you never know what her next move is, and it's interesting to see where it goes, ultimately until the earth-shattering conclusion. Seyfried's large, expressive eyes, tell you what her character is going through, and it's another case, where so much is said, when so little is actually spoken. The supporting cast, of course, includes Liam Neeson, who is always excellent, as Catherine's philandering husband, and he essentially does his job. There's not a whole lot of room in this picture, for his character to evolve. More attention is paid to the female leads.



What separates this from the countless stories of mistrust and infidelity, is the eerie and surprisingly profound tone that Egoyan brings to the table. It's a very mature, classy, smart film that deals with trust, loyalty, and love, and how, after so long, love can vanish, and an emotion can take over that you never would have expected to feel. And plus the settings are gorgeous. Jim Lambie, the set decorator of films like Heaven on Earth, and Egoyan's Adoration, brings a modern sense of traditionalism to the look of the film, especially the main setting of the Stewart household. And, also, the score, masterfully composed by Mychael Danna, brings out so much emotion, and tension to the table. Shattering orchestra crescendos, in pivotal scenes, bring more feeling, and intensity to the overall tone of the picture.



But, in the end, it's Egoyan's patient and thoughtful pacing, and an excellent performance by Amanda Seyfried that really stand out. It's a very mature, intricate experience that takes its time with developing each character, and brings a stunning conclusion that sets it apart from other stories of its kind. Its portrayal of lust and erotic desire, and the vulnerability of love, itself, will leave you breathless. Egoyan's use of an elegant, gliding camera, traps his characters against windows and mirrors, to signify how trapped a person can feel in their own life. And Egoyan's ability to never tell a story on one level, and his knack for adding layer, after layer to each character, makes the effect that the film has all the more effective.

Posted on December 2, 2011

Tamekia Woltman says...

i thought it had a really good cast and that the dynamic between the characters was really good too. it was nice to see amanda seyfried doing a new kind of role and she did an excellent job at portraying "chloe". julianne moore is pretty much awesome in whatever she does and this was no different. liam neeson wasnt there for some of the shooting because of natasha richardson's skiing accident; but he managed to film all his scenes over a short period of time. i thought this movie was very good (including the storyline) and very sexy too. you arent really sure what is going on (the truth) until near the end of the movie. the sex scenes are also very hot

Posted on December 3, 2011