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TIFF 2009 Day 5: Atom Egoyan’s Chloe

Just plain silly from the get-go, Atom Egoyan’s Chloe might be my guilty pleasure of this festival/year with its Fatal Attraction-esque nature and the film’s foot soldiers Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried losing their clothes in a lust fest

Eric Lavallée

Published on September 18, 2009

Just plain silly from the get-go, Atom Egoyan’s Chloe might be my guilty pleasure of this festival/year with its Fatal Attraction-esque nature and the film’s foot soldiers Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried losing their clothes in an unclad lust fest, I’m finding myself in the minority with this one, having actually liked the film how Moore plays serious and distraught in dramatic parody, and how Seyfried sorta of plays the alter ego of what she didn’t play in Jennifer’s Body. A welcome departure from recent politically-motivated offerings and one notch above his last romp – Where the Truth Lies, this spicy Red Shoe diary number will have folks laughing in the most preposterous of places. Looking for this to get a pick-up and a potentially strong box office cull. Full review coming soon.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).