Chloe
Director Atom Egoyan finds intrigue at the edges of conventional sex. Chloe, like his great film Exotica (1994), is about sexual attraction confused by financial arrangements. Chloe centers on a powerfully erotic young woman with personal motives that are hidden. It is not blatant but seductive, depending on the ways that our minds, more than our bodies, can be involved in a sexual relationship. It's not so much what we're doing as what I'm thinking about it -- and what you're thinking, which may be more complex than I realize. (…)
After you see the movie, run through it again in your mind. Who wants what? Who gets what? Who decides what? Whose needs are gratified? Egoyan never makes a story with one level. He never reveals all of the motives, especially to his characters. He invites us to be voyeurs of surfaces that may not conceal what they seem. Fundamental shifts can alter all the relationships. All the same, their sexuality compels his characters to make decisions based on their own assumptions. It is a tangled web he weaves.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Duration: 96 min
Dialogue: English
Age limit: K15
