Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

christopher-underwood There was something about the way this film began, husband missing flight home for admittedly 'surprise' birthday party because he is having a drink with one of his students. Something clunky and seemingly predictable about the whole proceeding and then a prostitute is hired to see if husband would seduce her. Can it get more daft? Well, it can and it does, even if some twists change things up a bit. Julianne Moore can act but I've never been a fan and here at 49 it is simply unfair to have her compared to the young (and lovely) Amanda Seyfried all the time. Liam Neeson does no more than he usual seems to to make things realistic and believable and the 'mixed up son' (director Egoyan's alter ego, I suspect) is just too young and too inexperienced for such a difficult and underwritten role. The fairly explicit and frequent sex scenes are OK but the trouble is we are almost wishing not to see them, so unlikely and unbelievable are they.

acertainblue-477-314320 I liked Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter a lot - but I saw it back when my life allowed for more immersion in poetic, dreamlike intervals. And it dealt with communal/family dynamics, along with loss & tragedy - so, in a way, it had an easier path to intense engagement. 'Chloe' is one of several films I've recently seen that have all centered on the loss of power/attractiveness that can happen to women over a certain age - this film would be nothing without that as an integral, albeit unspoken theme. So my first problem is being very tired of this theme, or of nothing new/interesting being done with it.The second big problem is the film's pacing... so slow, I was tempted to fast forward a few times to see if the 'thriller' part would ever begin. Which brings me to Problem No. 3...Amanda Seyfried - had her part gone to someone who doesn't look like a fish (to me, Seyfried does, although I'm clearly in the minority on this), Chloe's (the character's) actions, along with her accounts of erotic/sexual encounters, might have been more exciting/evocative. But I find it so difficult to imagine that anyone would want to engage in relations with her that... well, there you have it. I'm writing this review in case there's anyone else who's on the fence re: watching, per Seyfried's presence, or who did watch & is searching for another voice that they can relate to. Moore's amazing (although, as someone said, she hardly looks ready to be 'put out to pasture'); Neeson's fine. The son's character is surprisingly boring & unattractive. Sorry!

Floated2 Chloe (2010) which later becomes more clear of its film caliber as everything starts to unfold. Twenty years Chloe's senior, what Catherine (Julianne Moore) fears most is the encroaching invisibility the younger woman seems to crave. A high-end gynecologist (if you'll excuse the term, and the fact that we don't actually have those in Canada), Catherine has an office on Toronto's snooty Yorkville strip and a cubist home in its poshest neighborhood. She's beautiful, married to Liam Neeson (playing a professor named David), and has a sexually active teenage son named Michael (Max Thierot). She's also terrible at her job: what kind of gynecologist would brush off a mortified woman's searching confession (in stirrups, no less) to never having had an orgasm with the equivalent. Everything appears to come in place in its finale but the ending feels as if we were put down and the writers apparently thought it was the best way to end the film. Once again, a fairy tale ending may appear- depending on your viewpoint.

Dr_Sagan A married doctor wife suspects that her professor husband is cheating on her, so she hires a young prostitute to lure him and see what will happen. The results are far from what she was expecting.Julianne Moore gives a stellar performance in the character of a troubled wife and Liam Neeson is more hansom than usual. Amanda Seyfried as the titular character seems OK but other actresses could have done better.The film has a sensual feel (and some nudity and sex scenes) and the music works towards that direction.You keep guessing what will happen next, and if the movie take a 180o turn at any point. There are some "surprises" so to speak but overall the ending disappoints.It is good for a nightly viewing before sleep but It could have been so much more....