Post by shaneo6930 on Jul 27, 2010 15:32:40 GMT -5
(This review contains mild spoilers)
Okay, I've never heard of director Atom Egoyan, but apparently he's a pretty big deal. His new film Chloe, which premiered on DVD a couple weeks ago is nothing short of amazing. It's like Poison Ivy for adults.
Julianne Moore stars asCatherine, a suburban housewife/gynecologist who hires private escourt (read: prostitute) Chloe (Amanda Seyfried, who wonderfully breaks her usual Mamma Mia/Dear John roles) to see if her husband, college teacher David (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her. Slowly, Chloe squeezes her way into the lives of this family, seducing both David and Catherine, as well as their 18 year old son (Max Theirot).
This is not a movie that you can just put on and do something else while watching. Chloe commands your full attention throughout it's 97 minute runtime. Everything, from the seeming beauty of suburbia, to the sweaty heat in the love scene between Seyfried and Moore is wonderfully captured by Egoyan's watchful eye for detail. At times, I could feel Chloe's touch as she caressed one of the characters, or even smell Catherine's perfume as she walked across the screen.
I'm begging you, put the kids to bed before starting this one. The aformentioned Moore/Seyfried love scene is quite graphic, as is the dialogue between Catherine and Chloe. There is also full frontal female nudity. 18+. (Now I'm no longer surprised by the fact that I was carded at the video store when I rented it.)
I give Chloe a 9/10 grade.
Okay, I've never heard of director Atom Egoyan, but apparently he's a pretty big deal. His new film Chloe, which premiered on DVD a couple weeks ago is nothing short of amazing. It's like Poison Ivy for adults.
Julianne Moore stars asCatherine, a suburban housewife/gynecologist who hires private escourt (read: prostitute) Chloe (Amanda Seyfried, who wonderfully breaks her usual Mamma Mia/Dear John roles) to see if her husband, college teacher David (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her. Slowly, Chloe squeezes her way into the lives of this family, seducing both David and Catherine, as well as their 18 year old son (Max Theirot).
This is not a movie that you can just put on and do something else while watching. Chloe commands your full attention throughout it's 97 minute runtime. Everything, from the seeming beauty of suburbia, to the sweaty heat in the love scene between Seyfried and Moore is wonderfully captured by Egoyan's watchful eye for detail. At times, I could feel Chloe's touch as she caressed one of the characters, or even smell Catherine's perfume as she walked across the screen.
I'm begging you, put the kids to bed before starting this one. The aformentioned Moore/Seyfried love scene is quite graphic, as is the dialogue between Catherine and Chloe. There is also full frontal female nudity. 18+. (Now I'm no longer surprised by the fact that I was carded at the video store when I rented it.)
I give Chloe a 9/10 grade.