- Apparently having your blog optioned into a website is the latest trend, and if I had to guess I’d say that Chloe is the movie version of Unhappy Hipsters, with it’s amazing architectural spaces populated by cold and angst-ridden dysfunctionalites.
- I’m always surprised when a movie shot in Toronto is actually supposed to take place in Toronto. It’s funny how even with blatant shout outs to various city locales, it took until the shot of the Stewarts in Toronto Life magazine to convince me that it was Toronto On Purpose.
- Speaking of which, the ROM and the AGO are shot in such a way that it makes both buildings look like the huge architecture monuments the city wants them to be (that the citizens themselves are continually whining about). It makes us look positively cosmopolitan!
- The Stewarts had two nice Ed Burtynsky photographs on the wall of their arbitrary sitting room area.
- Why do people in movies always act like they’ve never seen a movie themselves? On what planet does it ever end well when you hire another woman to seduce your husband? I didn’t realise when I heard about this movie at TIFF last year that it wasn’t just a case of “Woman hires other woman to seduce her husband, women fall for each other instead”; Chloe being clearly mentally disturbed and incredibly manipulative turns her into Glen Close: The Next Generation, and I’m ultimately left wondering why the hell this kind of story is still interesting to people after Fatal Attraction. (I’m aware that it’s actually a remake of a different film. Still.) It became predictable and tiresome pretty quickly.
- I wasn’t super impressed by some of the stylistic choices, like the incredibly lame sequence where Catherine masturbates in the shower while David gets a blow job at Allan Gardens, or Chloe’s inexplicably stupid death scene.
- I think Catherine’s assistant used to be on Polka Dot Door.
- It’s weird watching a movie at a theatre that’s in the neighbourhood the film takes place in.
Chloe
Only worth it if you’re interested in seeing Amanda Seyfried’s side boob a lot. Edgy!
IMDB Plot Synopsis A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
I respectfully demand that you correct Glenn’s name!
Also I hope you’re seeing Clash of the Titans because it is so cheese and I’m dying to see if you agree.
Chloe’s death scene made me worry about the strength of the window frames in Canadian houses. She’s a mere slip of a girl, and yet she hardly needed to put any weight against that window before she was falling sloooowly to the ground.
I always enjoy watching a film that takes place in the location I’m watching it in. The best case of this was when I saw David Mamet’s Spartan at the Cineworld Shaftsbury Avenue, and the final scene shows Val Kilmer walking past, yes, the Cineworld Shaftsbury Avenue. It got the best crowd reaction in the whole movie.
Weirdly enough, I’m pretty sure I accidentally ran past the house they used for the exterior shots of that house while jogging the other day.