'Chloe'

'Chloe' (R) ***

Writer: Erin Cressida Wilson
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Max Theriot

Through out the very sexy and interesting "Chloe" I was very happy that Julianne Moore and new sensation Amanda Seyfried were together in this movie. Julianne Moore has done her share of safe Hollywood formula films but she has also done some brave and soul baring stuff also. She is not afraid to do nudity and give herself to uncomfortable material. If you haven't heard about Amanda Seyfried, you will very soon. She was been in the excellent HBO show "Big Love", movies "Mamma Mia!", "Jennifer's Body" and the smash hit "Dear John" which I have not seen. She is a very beautiful young woman and good actress who for the first time in her career has to bare her soul and her body. It is the sign of a future great actress when she can mix the commercial with the daring. That is why Julianne Moore is a great actress and why Seyfried gives a breakout performance here. "Chloe" tells the story of a gynecologist played by Moore who thinks her flirty husband is having an affair. She hooks up with a high end call girl to try to seduce her husband. Then the movie really gets interesting as it gets a little psychologically intense. This movie could have been one of those late night Cinemax skin flicks or a Lifetime movie but under the hands of wonderful director Atom Egoyan the movie is well thought out and tasteful. Egoyan was the director of one of the most powerful and haunting films ever in "The Sweet Hereafter". The screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson is subtle and doesn't go for that hammy "Fatal Attraction" ending. I have seen too many of those weak rip offs. The movie does have a lot of nudity by Moore and Seyfried and I am not complaining. I think it is handles in a non gratuitous way. There is also an effective and very sexy girl on girl sex scene that is done with passion and beauty instead of tawdry trashiness. Don't get me wrong, the acting here is solid, the story is intriguing and the ending seems just right. Julianne Moore gives another daring and great performance and Seyfried is a revelation and now her career will explode. Oh and did I forget to mention Liam Neeson is in and that he is good.