Chloe (2009 film)

In a voice-over, Chloe discusses her business as a call girl. Catherine is a gynecologist, and her husband David is a college professor. Catherine suspects David of having an affair after she sees a cell-phone picture of him with a female student.

Catherine and David meet Catherine's colleague at a restaurant, where Catherine briefly encounters Chloe in the ladies room. Later that evening, while observing Chloe with her date, she realizes that she is a call girl. At some point after, from her office window, Catherine notices Chloe enter into an upscale bar and surmises that she goes there to meet clients. Catherine goes there looking for Chloe, telling her that she wants to hire her to test David's loyalty. Chloe later tells Catherine that David asked her if he could kiss her, which he did. Catherine is angered but insists that Chloe meet with David again. She asks that Chloe show her the results of her most recent tests for sexually transmitted diseases. Chloe brings the test results to Catherine's office. While there, she meets Catherine's son, Michael, who is there to pick up a tuxedo. They chat briefly and Chloe flirts with him.

Over the next few days, Catherine and Chloe meet multiple times, and Chloe describes in explicit detail her encounters with David, which arouses Catherine. During one meeting, Chloe kisses Catherine. Catherine, surprised by this, abruptly leaves. Later, when meeting with David at a get-together, she is taken aback by his awareness of the scent of her lotion; it is the same lotion that Chloe wears. Upset by this, Catherine leaves and meets with Chloe at a hotel. The two go into a hotel room, where Catherine starts undressing Chloe before asking Chloe to tell her how David touches her, visibly aroused. Realizing that Catherine wants her, Chloe seduces Catherine, undresses her and dominates her, having sex with her. Afterwards, Catherine arrives home later than usual, leading David to ask her if she has been unfaithful. Catherine tells him she thinks he has been unfaithful as well, and the two argue, stopping after being interrupted by Michael.

Catherine meets with Chloe and calls off their relationship, but later asks her to meet her at a coffee house frequented by David. She has also asked David to meet there to discuss their relationship. David arrives first and she angrily demands that he admit that he is having an affair, insisting that they both should confess their indiscretions and "lay everything out on the table." Chloe walks in, and it is very clear that David does not recognize her, appearing as if he has never even met her before. Chloe leaves quickly, and Catherine realizes that Chloe made up the stories of her encounters with David.

David admits that he has fantasized about other women, and expects Catherine to make a similar admission with regard to men. When she does not, David becomes agitated. Catherine then tells David that she hired Chloe, and that the two of them also had a sexual encounter. She apologizes, saying that she felt she had became invisible to David as she aged, while David became more attractive to her, and that this got in the way of their sex life. The couple reconciles.

Chloe goes to Catherine and David's house and seduces Michael before having sex with him in Catherine's bed. Catherine arrives home, and Chloe tells Catherine that she is in love with her. She threatens to hurt Catherine with her hairpin, requesting a kiss, and Catherine complies. Michael sees, startling Catherine and causing her to push Chloe into the bedroom window. Chloe manages to grab hold of the frame, but she intentionally lets go and falls to her death. Sometime later, Catherine attends Michael's graduation party and wears Chloe's hairpin in her hair.

Chloe was the first film produced by the director Atom Egoyan which was not written by himself.

The entire film production time was only 37 days.[7]

The film was financed solely in France and was shot in Toronto and Lake Ontario, Canada. Some local restaurants and scenic spots appear in the film under actual names, such as Allan Gardens, Cafe Diplomatico, The Rivoli, the Windsor Arms Hotel, the Royal York Hotel, the Royal Ontario Museum, The Royal Conservatory of Music, the CN Tower, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Ontario College of Art.[8]

Producer Jason Reitman helped persuade Amanda Seyfried to star in this film.[9] Seyfried accepted the role of Chloe after a friend of hers withdrew from consideration due to discomfort with the nudity.[10] Julianne Moore described Seyfried as a "very dependable" acting partner and claimed that they were largely comfortable with the intimacy in the film. In describing her view of Catherine's relationship with Chloe, Moore noted "an emotional quality to their intimacy that has to do with their conversation and their basic receptivity to one another. Now what they turn into personally obviously is very different. They are having completely subjective experiences, but that doesn't mean [they're] not incredibly receptive to one another and it clearly creates something in-between them. And that's what love and sex and intimacy and all that is. Someone who is listening to you, hearing you, there for you, that's the person you end up having a relationship with, sexual or just emotional or whatever. I don't know if that has to do with gender necessarily".[11]

Liam Neeson's wife, Natasha Richardson, had a skiing accident during filming. Neeson decided to leave the set to take care of his wife, who died from her injury a few days later. The filmmakers re-arranged the shooting schedule accordingly for Neeson's absence.[1] Just a few days after his wife's death, Neeson returned to the set and filmed the remainder of his scenes in two days.[12] Canadian indie rock band Raised by Swans has two songs featured in the movie and the band is mentioned several times by Chloe.

Anne Fontaine (the writer/director of Nathalie...) said that she was interested in Egoyan's take on it. Fontaine also said that she was not happy with Nathalie... because the two lead actresses of the film objected to her original intention for a lesbian relationship to develop between their characters.[13]

Atom Egoyan studied at the University of Toronto, and Joe Medjuck, one of the film's producers, was a teacher of Egoyan at the University of Toronto.[14]

StudioCanal fully financed Chloe, and StudioCanal were able to fully recoup the film's budget via international pre-sales.[18][19] In 2009, the film received award nominations from London Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival under the category of Film Presented.[20]

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group paid a low seven-figure sum to acquire the United States distribution rights of Chloe,[18][21] and the group opened this film in limited theatrical release in the United States on March 26, 2010 through Sony Pictures Classics.[22] In the United States, this film grossed $3 million theatrically,[23] which is generally considered as a good result for an arthouse film release in early 2010's.[24][25][26]

In the wake of Chloe, Egoyan had since received many scripts of erotic thrillers.[27] Amanda Seyfried's performance in this film also helped her to gain industry acclaim and become considered for more roles.[28]

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