MOVIE: CHLOE

In Chloe, Atom Egoyan’s unflattering exposé on sexuality, Julianne Moore plays Catherine, a gynaecologist who doubts the fidelity of her husband (Liam Neeson). Desperate to resolve her suspicions, she hires seductive escort Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to bait him…but instead of answers, Catherine finds herself struggling with dormant sexual desires. Aside from some lush cinematography, Egoyan handles the film without finesse; subjecting cinemagoers to numerous plot contrivances, dumb dialogue, offensively blatant Freudianisms, and unsympathetic characters. It doesn’t help that Neeson, Seyfried and Moore (recently so impressive in Tom Ford’s A Single Man) have zero chemistry here, and instead feel like they’re slumming it. Chloe purports to be a titillating, sensual ‘erotic thriller’. Unfortunately, this listless offering leaves little to the imagination and much to be desired. (JH)