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    Egoyan's Chloe a reinvention of sexy French drama




    Though it's based on a French movie, the filmmakers behind Chloe describe the erotic psychological drama as a reinvention of the story rather than a remake.

    "I loved the basic principle of the story, the sort of underlying idea of what happens when suspicion takes over a long-term relationship," veteran producer Ivan Reitman said of the 2005 original Nathalie, the premiere of which he saw at the Toronto International Film Festival.

    With Nathalie not widely released in North America, "I thought there was an opportunity to see how far it could go," Reitman told a press conference Monday afternoon, a day after Chloe's premiere at this year's edition of TIFF.


    As Reitman worked on the project with screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson and with celebrated Toronto director Atom Egoyan over the years, they made a host of changes to the original, about a woman who hires a prostitute to engage her philandering husband and report back about their encounters.

    For instance, Egoyan wanted the prostitute (portrayed by Amanda Seyfried as the titular Chloe) to be significantly younger than the woman (actress Julianne Moore), and for the latter to be uncertain about whether her husband (played by Liam Neeson) is cheating in the first place.

    "They are both soothing each other for reasons they don't understand, but also tormenting each other and that was very exciting for me in terms of the casting, the way we developed the screenplay and the rich possibilities that this had as a psychological drama," Egoyan said.

    Switching settings
    The film's setting also changed: originally from San Francisco, Cressida Wilson had set the film in her hometown, but the final product is unabashedly set in Egoyan's: Toronto.

    "I realized that I was a tourist in [San Francisco]. There is a very specific social milieu that this film was examining, and there is a class structure that it's also looking at. I understand that in this city [Toronto] very well," Egoyan said.

    He sought to convince Reitman that Toronto "could be as alluring and as sexy and romantic as San Francisco," and the movie mogul agreed, after Egoyan took him on a tour of neighbourhoods that don't typically turn up on film.

    "[Toronto's] always standing in, you know, for New York or for Chicago or God knows what," Reitman said of his one-time hometown.


    "I was saying, 'You know, we never see these streets because they're always hidden because they don't look enough like those stand-in cities. We really should do it here. It's really quite a romantic city and a beautiful city.

    It's a city that's been architecturally reborn, particularly in the past 10 years."

    Canadian audiences will get to see the film in theatres in December, while Egoyan expressed confidence that U.S. deal is forthcoming.

    The Oscar-nominated filmmaker added that he found Chloe — the first feature which he directs but didn't write — "incredibly liberating."

    Directing Cressida Wilson's linear screenplay "allowed me to focus on bringing things out from the script, knowing what the scene was about specifically," Egoyan said.

    "Sometimes, in an original script, you're not quite sure what the scene is about until it's pieced into the film — and that's not necessarily in order, as you probably know from the work I do," he said. "I enjoyed it. It was great."

    http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tiff/story/20...onference.html
    "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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    Re: Egoyan's Chloe - Sexy French Drama

    You know it's true love when your wife hires a prostitute to seduce you just to see if you're cheating on her.
    "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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      Egoyan’s Chloe to open San Sebastian festival

      Canadian director Atom Egoyan's psychological thriller, Chloe will open the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival next month in Spain, organizers announced Friday.

      The film, which stars Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore, will be one of 15 movies competing for the Golden Shell award, the highest prize given at the festival.

      One of the most prestigious film festivals, San Sebastian takes place in September in the northern Spanish city.

      Egoyan, who was raised in Victoria, B.C., is known for his contemporary style. He has directed such films as Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, which earned him an Oscar nomination for best director.

      His most recent film Chloe focuses on a woman who believes her husband is having an affair. She tries to learn whether he is being unfaithful by hiring a female escort to seduce him, which leads to negative consequences.

      First established in 1953, the San Sebastian International Film Festival originally honoured Spanish language films. The festival changed this in the late 50s and has since allowed films of other languages to be eligible for consideration.

      Other films that are set to screen at the event include the American feature Get Low starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray.

      The San Sebastian International Film Festival runs from Sep. 17-26

      http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/20...l.html?ref=rss
      "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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        Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
        You know it's true love when your wife hires a prostitute to seduce you just to see if you're cheating on her.
        This is funny indeed but sounds like a fun film to watch.
        Hayastan or Bust.

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          Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
          This is funny indeed but sounds like a fun film to watch.
          Thanks honey, that's the best present a guy can get from his wife!
          "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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            INTERPRETING EGOYAN'S EROTICA
            By Michael D. Reid

            Vancouver Sun
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            March 9 2010
            Canada

            It erupts over coffee in Victoria, where the director is taking a
            breather before resuming a gruelling press tour for Chloe, his new
            erotic drama that opens nationwide March 26.

            Victoria-raised Egoyan, who turns 50 in July, laughs as he recalls
            a surreal experience at the Guadalajara Film Festival. A screening
            of Next of Kin, his 1984 drama about a troubled young man who
            impersonates an Armenian couple's long-lost son, was planned as part
            of a retrospective, but the 1989 vigilante action flick of the same
            name was featured by mistake.

            "It seemed so incongruous. It said my first film was Next of Kin with
            Patrick Swayze," he recalled, laughing. "They programmed that movie,
            so anyone who saw it would have thought the rest of my career went
            downhill from there."

            Egoyan has grown accustomed to being misperceived, as when many assumed
            his mournful 1993 drama Exotica was an exploitative sex flick because
            much of its action was set in a Toronto strip club.

            No wonder Egoyan is feeling some deja vu as Sony Pictures Classics
            rolls out Chloe. His sleek, sexy and well-acted reinvention of
            Anne Fontaine's 2003 French film Nathalie focuses on the unsettling
            relationship between Catherine (Julianne Moore), a wealthy middle-aged
            gynecologist, and Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), the sexy young escort she
            hires to seduce her husband (Liam Neeson) and test his fidelity.

            Although Egoyan describes it as a drama about the erotic lives of
            its needy protagonists, albeit with thriller ingredients, Chloe -
            termed "a Sapphic Fatal Attraction" by London's Daily Telegraph,
            likely because of a sex scene between Catherine and Chloe - is being
            marketed as an erotic thriller.

            "It's very difficult these days to market something as a drama," says
            Egoyan, who was hired by Canadian producer Ivan Reitman. "There's
            the film and there's the marketing of it, and what within the film
            is a concession to how you have to sell it?"

            Egoyan, who directed from a screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson,
            says Chloe is chiefly a study of a marriage.

            "It's about what happens in relationships after a long period of time.

            How do you keep an erotic fantasy with someone you know so well? How
            do you reinvent that?" says Egoyan, noting it isn't a script he could
            have written himself.

            "I cannot write a story that goes from point A to point B," he says
            matter-of-factly. "It's just not in me."

            Still, he managed to incorporate his own style and persuaded Reitman
            to let him shoot in Toronto instead of San Francisco.

            "One of the arguments I made to Ivan was Toronto, in fact, kind of
            xxxxxs itself," he says. "It plays a prostitute to all these different
            cities it pretends to be but is not, like Chicago or New York. So
            it's interesting that it's set in a place that, in most people's
            imaginations, is not even on the map."

            It was the dynamics of the women's relationship that sold him, he says.

            "It's this clash of two women with competing structures and ways of
            creating a fantasy about each other," he explains.

            "For Chloe, she sleeps with these men in these rooms and feels somewhat
            diminished by that, and suddenly she gets to tell what happens in
            these rooms to a respectable, gorgeous older woman who listens to these
            stories and endows them with a certain power. And for Catherine, this
            person is a surrogate youthful object she obviously can't be anymore."

            While Egoyan is aware some might view the woman-on-woman sex scene
            as gratuitous, he insists it isn't.

            "It's not just about sexual pleasure. There are a lot of other things
            they're trying to traverse," he says. "What I'm interested in is what's
            going on in these women's minds as they're colliding into each other."

            He says it helped that he got to work with a top-shelf cast.

            "Working with Amanda was great," recalls Egoyan, who cast Seyfried
            before Mamma Mia made her a star. "There was absolute trust and she
            was great with Julie. They were very compatible."

            After shooting Adoration and Chloe back to back, he admits he's ready
            for a break.

            "I know from experience after Exotica this could be a year of just
            meeting people, spending time in L.A. and treading water," says Egoyan,
            who is once again inundated with offers to direct Hollywood screenplays
            and adapt novels.

            Chloe opens March 26
            Hayastan or Bust.

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              Re: Egoyan's Chloe - Sexy French Drama

              Nice article, thank you!

              I'm supposed to see Chloe on Wednesday, followed by a Q&A with Atom Egoyan. I'm bundled with joy.

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                Originally posted by One-Way View Post
                Nice article, thank you!

                I'm supposed to see Chloe on Wednesday, followed by a Q&A with Atom Egoyan. I'm bundled with joy.
                Ask him if he is gona make another movie about a threesome, i been working on my um ,acting, yeh thats it.
                Hayastan or Bust.

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                  Re: Egoyan's Chloe - Sexy French Drama

                  Nice! I love Egoyan's movies, besides Ararat I love Felicia's Journey.

                  But I will have to wait until some kind soul uploads it online or it appears on international TV, most nice movies never come here...

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                    Re: Egoyan's Chloe - Sexy French Drama

                    I just saw Chloe at an advance screening, which was followed by a Q&A with Atom Egoyan and Erin Cressida Wilson.

                    It's tough to begin to talk about the film because what I want to say and what everybody expects me to say will result in two completely different discussions. I'm sure anybody who is interested in this film would like to know how it generally was, how was the cast of performers, and how it all played out in the hands of Atom Egoyan, as a director and not a writer. I would much rather go into depth about what made this an Atom Egoyan film, and whether or not it is still the work of an auteur, rather than a director for hire. I'll end up doing this eventually, probably after more people have seen the film so I don't give away its ending or reveal other spoilers.

                    Chloe tells the story of Catherine and David, a married couple living in Toronto - and yes, Toronto is Toronto, and doesn't substitute for another major city. Catherine suspects that her husband is cheating on her, which results in her hiring an escort to test his limits. I won't go into its genre or how the film compares to other films of its kind, because truth be told, I haven't seen many of them. Chloe exists within these genre films (we will hear a lot about Fatal Attraction and such), but Egoyan explores the complexities and layers of a marriage.

                    I fell in love with Egoyan's work because of his writing and formal strategies when it came into exploring the narrative of a film. I didn't know quite how to feel about Chloe, because it is an unwelcoming change, especially if the screenplay isn't well written, to begin with. Chloe is exceptionally directed and I believe that's what makes the film work. Its actors fit perfectly together as part of an ensemble and the most important thing is that Egoyan doesn't treat them as stars. He doesn't make you feel like Liam Neeson is Liam Neeson or that Julianne Moore is Julianne Moore. In this film, they are all performers, with great performances and being handled by a great director.

                    I went into the film with the intentions of discovering what was Egoyan about it, considering the screenplay wasn't written by him. Is it the opening sequence? No, Egoyan usually gives us a long tracking shot and allows his credits to spill over. Is it the unconventional narrative? No, Chloe tells a straightforward story, in a rather conventional structure. Somehow, however, Egoyan finds a way to make us aware of his directing hand. Their are recurring visual motifs, such as hands, a comb, mirrors and glass, that all highlight certain characteristics about the characters. Egoyan introduces Chloe through a monologue, then emphasizes her entrance into Catherine's life. He does this all through visuals, and expresses their characteristics and behaviors through imagery. Catherine spends much of her life looking into the lives of other people and understanding them, and at times, controlling them. Egoyan makes us aware of her personality through the use of production design, visuals and cinematography.

                    In the third act of the film, there is a shift in the tone as we move into a thriller. If I reveal anything here, it will be nothing but spoilers, so I can speak on how it is handled rather than what happens. Egoyan doesn't rely on gimmicks and instead brings his own style into the film. He relies on technology throughout the entire film and allows it to develop the plot; live discussions on webcams, text messaging, etc. He allows us to break apart the characters and put them back together during the ending of the film, when a significant twist is revealed. He does this, once again, through visual motifs. I would have to kill the film to explain the ending of the film. I would like to say, however, that the ending consists of one of the most beautiful shots Egoyan has pulled off. It's breathtaking and you will know it when you see it.

                    Overall, I thought the film was exceptionally directed. It allows you to feel the directing hand at work, constructing the film and telling a story visually. During the Q&A, Egoyan and Wilson discussed adapting the film and their approach to the material, which was very interesting to hear. Egoyan mentioned that some of the inspirations for the film came from Persona (which I immediately felt during scenes between Catherine/Chloe), Rear Window (Catherine's need to control her family), and Let the Right One In (surprisingly, for the tone of the film). Unfortunately, everybody probably wants to know about the sex and nudity. I don't know what to say. If that's all you're hoping for, I guess you will be satisfied. There is a ton of nudity when it comes to Julianne Moore, and not much when it comes to Amanda Seyfried. There is a sex scene between the two, but what I just said applies to that scene as well. I hope people don't go into this film looking forward to that, but hopefully, if they do, it will help ticket sales.

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