Chloe (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chloe |
| Original title | Chloe |
| Country of production | USA , Canada , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Atom Egoyan |
| script | Erin Cressida Wilson |
| production |
Ivan Reitman , Joe Mejuck , Jeffrey Clifford |
| music | Mychael Danna |
| camera | Paul Sarossy |
| cut | Susan Shipton |
| occupation | |
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Chloe is an American-Canadian-French erotic thriller from Atom Egoyan from 2009. It is a remake of the French film Nathalie from 2003.
content
Gynecologist Catherine Stewart has been secretly preparing a big birthday party for her husband, musicology professor David, in Toronto while he is giving a lecture in New York City . In the evening, however, David calls because he missed his plane and will therefore only be home at night. Catherine is disappointed, as this incident is symptomatic of their marriage, in which both have become indifferent over the years. When Catherine finds an ambiguous message from one of his students on David's cell phone and David flirts with the waitress in the restaurant, Catherine decides to put him to the test. She hires the young call girl Chloe, who should "offer herself" to her husband.
Chloe and David meet in a bar where she asks him for sugar for her coffee. She later tells Catherine everything about the first meeting, when both of them only spoke briefly to each other. Catherine asks Chloe to meet David a second time as she wants to see how far he would go in such a case. At the next meeting with Catherine, Chloe reports that she first had a picnic with David and how she later became intimate with him. Catherine is confused and stops the experiment. Nevertheless, Chloe continues to tell her about meeting David and also lets her come into a hotel room, where she presents Catherine the ransacked beds. Catherine pays Chloe off never to see her again. As a farewell, Chloe kisses the surprised Catherine, who a few days later - her son has just given a successful piano concert - rushes to Chloe's hotel. They sleep together and Catherine then asks Chloe not to see her husband anymore. Chloe gives her a hairpin that once belonged to her mother. At home, Catherine gets into an argument with David, who accuses her of having an affair. She in turn accuses him of sleeping with his female students.
The next day, Catherine found innumerable memos from Chloe in her practice, who also emailed a photo of herself and the sleeping Catherine. Chloe appears at the practice and brings flowers to Catherine. She explains to Catherine that she feels their relationship is real. Catherine rejects her with a check and declares that she will never see her again. Chloe now begins to contact Catherine's and David's son Michael. She gives him a CD, which he later listens to in his room. Catherine is horrified when she receives a text message from Chloe. She writes that she has only just left. After a phone call that reveals that Chloe is still seeing David, Catherine sets up a meeting with Chloe in a cafe. She brings David with her, who reacts indifferently to the sight of Chloe. Chloe leaves the bar hastily and it becomes clear that the first meeting of the two was actually the only one. Chloe made up all the other meetings just to start a relationship with Catherine.
While Catherine is confessing everything to her husband, Chloe goes to the couple's house and seduces Michael in his parents' marriage bed. When Catherine comes home, she confronts Chloe for the last time in horror. In the dispute observed by Michael, in which Chloe threatens Catherine with the hairpin that was given, injured her neck and forces her to kiss her, Catherine finally accidentally bumps Chloe against the window, which gives way. At first Chloe can hold on to the window frame, but then loosens her grip, lets herself fall into the depths with a smile and a peaceful expression on her face and dies. Some time later, Michael's graduation from college is celebrated at Catherine's and David's home. The couple have found each other again, but Catherine wears Chloe's hairpin.
production
Much of the film was shot in Toronto . One of the locations was the Palm House in Allan Gardens , where a seduction scene between David and Chloe was created.
Liam Neeson's wife, Natasha Richardson, passed away while filming, so the film's script had to be changed to accommodate his temporary absence on set. The Canadian indie band Raised by Swans makes an appearance in the film and is mentioned several times by Chloe. She gives Michael a CD from the band.
Chloe had its world premiere on September 13, 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany, the film was released on April 15, 2010.
synchronization
The dubbing of the film was done by Christa Kistner Dubbing Production based on a dialogue book by Michael Schlimgen and directed by Susanna Bonaséwicz .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine Stewart | Julianne Moore | Petra Barthel |
| David Stewart | Liam Neeson | Bernd Rumpf |
| Chloe Sweeney | Amanda Seyfried | Magdalena Turba |
| Anna | Nina Dobrev | Rubina Kuraoka |
| Michael Stewart | Max Thieriot | Julius Jellinek |
| Frank | RH Thomson | Hans-Jürgen Dittberner |
| Alicia | Laura DeCarteret | Alexandra Ludwig |
| Miranda | Meghan Heffern | |
| Eliza | Natalie Lisinska | |
| Trina | Tiffany Knight | |
| Receptionist Julie | Mishu Vellani | Marion Musiol |
| Bimsy | Julie Khaner | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
criticism
Boxoffice.com criticized problems with the script that neither the director nor the actor could solve. Nevertheless, the film is beautiful, so that with the right marketing strategy - it should appeal to adult viewers who like melodramas - it could be a success.
The film service wrote that in Chloe , Atom Egoyan “once again plays through his topics of identity formation, media puzzles and the question of the 'truth' of narratives, but this time too obediently succumbs to the conventions of the genre. Even the intoxicating visuals of the film do not hide the fact that the staging is caught up in outdated gender clichés . ” Above all, the world criticized the last third of the film. In it “the marriage drama becomes a sticky erotic thriller […. It] reminds badly of a fateful affair and, after initially flaring up interesting ambiguities, turns Chloe into a seductively staged, but ultimately quite absurd affair. "
Der Spiegel praised Chloe as a "perfectly formed fetish thriller and [...] terrificly evil [n] woman 's film" and drew comparisons to Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo . Even Der Tagesspiegel rated Chloe positive, concluding that "Atom Egoyan these three characters [David, Chloe and Catherine] in its refined story so closely [lace] that the viewer always stays away the spittle. In the well-groomed muffledness of the action, through which only a few atmospheric noises penetrate, above all the erotic tension crackles. "
Web links
- Chloe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Julianne Moore about Chloe (Video)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Chloe . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 235 K).
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movie | Chloe. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Pam Grady: Chloe . boxoffice.com ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chloe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Abeltshauser: Where the escort lady seduces the gynecologist . welt.de, accessed May 1, 2010.
- ↑ Christian Buß : The lust of others . spiegel.de, accessed May 1, 2010.
- ↑ Seduce my husband! . tagesspiegel.de, accessed on May 1, 2010.
