Felt like watching something on the big screen last Tuesday (Melb Cup Day), and this had the significant advantage of having been directed by Atom Egoyan, whose The Sweet Hereafter is, I still think, a small, quiet miracle. Chloe's not in the same league, but it sets itself at doing something quite different and mostly succeeds. It's a very adult movie, both in the frankness with which its characters discuss and engage in/with sex, and in the hard-edged ways in which they relate to each other (up to and including the manners in which they reveal their vulnerabilities) - and while none of its moves are exactly surprises (the film deliberately signposts the direction in which it's heading from very early on), it holds the attention.
(w/ Jade)
