The American movie summer is slowing down, so there are fewer blockbusters, less rom-coms and not so many “bad-taste” buddy movies around. The studios are looking ahead to the forthcoming awards season and they are lining up their more serious, adult creations for the more discerning movie fans. This month we offer a dazzling display of acting skill from Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried in the daring “Chloe”. It will be screened at Nu-Metro, Hyde Park, on July 25.

“Chloe” will be screened at Nu-Metro, Hyde Park, on July 25.  Join us for snacks at 5:00 pm and the screening is preceded by an introduction by Barry Ronge at 5:30pm.

“Chloe” is the newest film from director Atom Egoyan, the Egyptian born film-maker who was raised in Canada and has become one of that country’s most fascinating film-makers. In the past we have shown his works, “Where the Truth Lies” in 2005 and “Adoration”  in 2008.  “Chloe” is one of his most sexually daring thrillers. It examines a seemingly perfect marriage, that is actually teetering on the edge of collapse. Liam Neeson plays David, a respected musician and lecturer who is an expert on opera.

His wife Catherine (Julianne Moore) is a successful gynaecologist with a thriving practice. They have moody, adolescent son who has a musical gift, but he’s a teenager more preoccupied with sex and his own identity than with his music. To see them in their beautiful house, with its huge windows that link the inner and outer spaces so dynamically, with their affluence and their social status and good careers, there seems to be nothing they lack.

Juliann Moore

What Catherine lacks is self-confidence. She growing older and every day at her practice she hears from women who have emotional and sexual problems and she starts to wonder if she is too absorbed in her work to see her life properly. She begins to suspect that her husband is cheating on her and she makes a radical and dangerous move. She hires Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) who works as a hooker and Catherine pays Chloe to try to seduce her husband, David, just to see if he is cheating on her.

It’s a dangerous move because there are things she does now know, about Chloe, about her husband and about herself, and they are drawn into an intense erotic thriller that moves them all to the brink.
The film carries the highest censorship rating, which means that there is extensive nudity and graphic sexual activity in the film. Having said that, there is nothing salacious or arbitrary in these scenes.
It’s about people exploring their sexual needs as they never have before, but in the process they stumble onto each other’s secrets and they also discover their own emotional vulnerability, in terms of sex. It’s startling and compelling cinema.    

Join us for snacks at 5:00 pm and the screening is preceded by an introduction by Barry Ronge at 5:30pm