Chloe (2009)

A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the marriage in danger.

Director:

Atom Egoyan

Writers:

Erin Cressida Wilson (screenplay), Anne Fontaine (motion picture "Nathalie")

Stars:

Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson

3 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Julianne Moore	...	Catherine Stewart
Liam Neeson	...	David Stewart
Amanda Seyfried	...	Chloe
Max Thieriot	...	Michael Stewart
R.H. Thomson	...	Frank
Nina Dobrev	...	Anna
Mishu Vellani	...	Receptionist
Julie Khaner	...	Bimsy
Laura de Carteret	...	Alicia (as Laura De Carteret)
Natalie Lisinska	...	Eliza
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight	...	Trina (as Tiffany Knight)
Meghan Heffern	...	Miranda
Tamsen McDonough	...	Waitress
Kathryn Kriitmaa	...	Waitress 2
Arlene Duncan	...	Party Guest

Storyline

Catherine and David, she a doctor, he a professor, are at first glance the perfect couple. Happily married with a talented teenage son, they appear to have the perfect life. But when David misses a flight and his surprise birthday party, Catherine's long simmering suspicions rise to the surface. Suspecting infidelity, she decides to hire an escort to seduce her husband and test his loyalty. Catherine finds herself 'directing' Chloe's encounters with David, and Chloe's end of the bargain is to report back, the descriptions becoming increasingly graphic as the meetings multiply.

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Plot Keywords:

cheating on wife | lesbian sex | female nudity | escort | infidelity | 

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Taglines:

Her business is pleasure.

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, nudity and language

Details

Official Sites:

Kinowelt [Germany] Official site [Italy]

Country:

USA Canada France

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 March 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Chloé

Filming Locations:

Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$11,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$900,688, 28 March 2010, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$3,074,838, 11 July 2010

Company Credits

Production Co:

StudioCanal,The Montecito Picture Company,Outpost Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson wrote the part of Catherine, specifically with Julianne Moore in mind.

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Goofs

When Catherine is climbing the stairs at the end when Chloe and Michael are in her bed, she yells "Michael," but both times she's actually saying "David."

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Quotes

Catherine Stewart: This business transaction, which is what this was, is over!

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Crazy Credits

Daniel Pellerin (with thanks for 25 years of great work, from Atom)

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Connections

Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Inception/Predators/The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

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Soundtracks

Excerpt from 'Don Giovani' - Aria No. 4 'Madamina, il catalogo è questo'
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (uncredited)
Performed by Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding
A production of UNITEL in co-production with ORF and Classica in co-operation with the SALZBURG FESTIVAL

User Reviews

Erotic, exotic, beautifully shot, and with a score that is special

It was great to see the crowd for this film at my local cinema. Yes, the reviews for this look like they are all over the map. But let it be said that without this fantastic casting (Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried-a powerful erotic trio), the glorious cinematography and the wildly gorgeous sound track, it might be all of what these arm chair critics are saying. We live only a few miles from Canada by air but it might as well be Istanbul in the hands of this director. Magically the city of Toronto in winter is like another world, with a sleek modern feel that is alluring and cold at the same time. This is the perfect setting for a movie rich in the cloaked emotion of the upper class, lost in a deep freeze. Watching the film in spring in California, makes it seem even more unreal and foreign. In this landscape of ice, we see the characters emerge as modern people lost, alienated, hungary for love and even just human touch. This is a movie of antithesis, and startling allusions of the duality between trust and fear, openness and truth and the hard fact of emotional allusion and mirror like dreams. This film has nothing to do with Hitchcock and everything to do with Bunuel, and the deep wave of surrealist magic still washing on the shore of French thought and culture. Yes the ending is dubious, but it can't crush your response. For those of you wide awake enough to enjoy this, you will be rewarded in ways that American directors rarely seem to reach. What I say is bravo!I believe that for these moments, such dreams are very real.