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2010 · drama · thriller · mystery

Chloe

Directed by Atom Egoyan1h 36m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.282kRT52%Metacritic49
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David and see if he gives in to temptation — but events spin out of control when Chloe spills the details of her torrid encounters.

Our read · Chloe (2010) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want glossy Toronto erotic thriller about jealousy slowly curdling into obsession.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnudity

Skip it tonightYou'd be uncomfortable watching explicit sex scenes with anyone else present.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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