Here’s the first clip from Atom Egoyan’s sexual mindgame film (cause it can’t be anything but right?) “Chloe”.
It stars Julianne Moore as a doctor who hires an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce her husband (Liam Neeson) who she suspects of cheating. It’s also supposed to be one of his most audience-friendly pictures since his excellent 1997 school-kids-die-in-a-bus-crash picture, “The Sweet Hereafter,” which is probably a good thing for his career considering almost everything has bombed with both critics and moviegoers alike. This clip pretty much zeros in on the turning point crux of the story. Julianne Moore meets with Seyfried in a bar to see if she’s willing to play her game. “”My husband’s cheating on me,” Moore says. “At least I think he is. I wanna find out and see if he does if you present yourself to him.”
No offense, but isn’t this the plotline to 1,000 B-movies lite-porno films? We like both Seyfriend and Moore, but they both feel very leaded and stilted in the clip, especially Seyfried who looks like she just walked out of a Skinimax film. Now we’re not feeling entirely bad about not getting TIFF tickets to this one. Does it even have distribution yet? Let’s hope the full film is much better, apparently the Toronto press are pretty positive about the whole venture.