Chloe

Based on a French film, Nathalie (which I haven't seen), Chloe tells the story of a wife, Catherine (Julianne Moore), who suspects her husband (Liam Neeson) of infidelity. She hires a high-priced escort (Amanda Seifried) named Chloe to meet with her husband to see what he will do. Chloe is good at what she does: she knows what to say and how to say it, seducing her clients as much with her words as her body. But it seems that she has her sights set more on Catherine than on the man she is supposedly setting up, and we wonder what her real motive is. At first I thought that Neeson may be actually be setting his own wife up. Or that Chloe is out to blackmail this affluent family (Neeson is a college professor, Moore a gynaecologist and their teenaged son a music student). But it’s neither of these. And that’s what didn’t work for me. Catherine growing interest in Chloe and Chloe's strange obsession with Catherine (Chloe also pursues and seduces the son), seems... weird. The resolution and ambiguous ending is not unpleasant, however, and the closing image is quite thought-provoking. Side note: the film is unabashedly set in Toronto and there’s something about Atom Egoyan's dark and slightly twisted sense that is so indicative of Canadian film, that you can’t entirely dislike it. (6.5/10)