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London – The true life tale of South African golfer Papwa Sewgolum, a Durban man of Indian descent who defied the odds and the discriminatory sports codes of apartheid to play golf, is to get the big-screen treatment. Gauteng-based producer David Selvan is taking the project from writer and director Catherine Stewart to this month's Durban FilmMart. Photos: 26 of Hollywood's Most Popular Athletes-Turned-Actors Sewgolum, a caddie at a South African country club prevented from playing in his native country in the 1940s because of apartheid, was "discovered" by a German Graham Wulff. Wulff was playing

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Ah, the erotic thriller. A genre of ill repute that maintained a place in American culture on home video and late night cable through the eighties and nineties, the films of their ilk have dried up in the twenty first century. Why? It’s twofold, on one hand it’s that studios – if they want to do mainstream business – would rather make a film that isn’t rated R, and on the other the rise of internet pornography and the internet in general means that any nude scene can be found online. 2010’s Chloe relies more on the intrigue of its story over tawdry thrills, as Julianne Moore plays a wife convinced her husband (Liam Neeson) is having an affair, and hires a prostitute named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to see if she can’t seduce him, and in doing so excites the wife in unexpected ways. My review of Atom Egoyan...

A woman has a mid-life crisis of sorts and hires a prostitute to confirm that her husband is the cheater she thinks she is. What she finds out is more about herself than about her philandering husband. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) is a successful gynecologist. She starts to notice a young lady going in and out of a nearby hotel with a string of men. She.s planning an elaborate surprise party for her husband David (Liam Neeson), a professor. He misses his flight and her party is ruined. When he finally does come home he seems to have missed the flight on purpose and Catherine finds a picture of him with one of his female students when...

Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) thinks her handsome husband David (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her. He's out of town a lot. He's a professor with lots of pretty young students vying for his attention (and more). Catherine and David rarely make love anymore, and the passion is so out of the relationship that they don't even pick each other up from the airport these days, something they did in the past when they couldn't stand to be apart for another moment. Determined to uncover the truth, Catherine turns to a sexy, smokey-eyed escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried). Chloe's misson? To seduce David and report back to Catherine. Only things don't go quite as planned. Chloe describes every intimate moment of her trysts with David, recounting them in disturbingly vivid detail. At once mortified, angry, embarrassed, and turned on, Catherine winds up in bed with Chloe. The real drama starts,...

Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) thinks her handsome husband David (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her. He's out of town a lot. He's a professor with lots of pretty young students vying for his attention (and more). Catherine and David rarely make love anymore, and the passion is so out of the relationship that they don't even pick each other up from the airport these days, something they did in the past when they couldn't stand to be apart for another moment. Determined to uncover the truth, Catherine turns to a sexy, smokey-eyed escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried). Chloe's misson? To seduce David and report back to Catherine. Only things don't go quite as planned. Chloe describes every intimate moment of her trysts with David, recounting them in disturbingly vivid detail. At once mortified, angry, embarrassed, and turned on, Catherine winds up in bed with Chloe. The real drama starts,...

By Susan Granger - Artsy Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan ("The Sweet Hereafter") has devised an edgy, "Fatal Attraction"-type psychosexual thriller that turns out to be little more than soft-core pornography.

When Toronto gynecologist Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) plans a surprise birthday bash for her peripatetic music professor husband, David (Liam Neeson), and he - accidentally or deliberately - misses his flight home from New York and arrives long after the guests have left, she becomes suspicious that he.s having an affair. That.s amplified after she intercepts a suspicious text message. To test her theory, Catherine hires a beautiful, high-priced, blonde call girl, Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), to engage David in conversation at his favorite coffee shop to see how susceptible and receptive he is.

When Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) begins to suspect that her husband, David (Liam Neeson), a 50-something professor of music, is having an affair, she is unsure how to uncover the truth. Catherine is a woman at the pinnacle of her career and someone who is used to having all aspects of her life under control. When she begins to suspect David of extra-marital activities, she is equally upset and determined to find out why her husband could be straying and what it is he may be looking for outside his marriage.

Her investigation awakens desires she never knew she had.

During a chance dinner with friends, Catherine encounters an alluring young woman in the restaurant’s rest room, Chloe (Amanda Seyfried). Upon returning to her table, her husband and friends are playing 'spot the hooker' and immediately identify the beautiful blonde — now in the company of an older businessman — as a prostitute.

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Many thoughts come to mind while watching the movie Chloe.  Artistic and patient.  Feeling depression and be helpless at the same time.  Pure lust.  The descriptions above are all coming from the characters in the flick.  So one can bet on solid performances during this 96 minute piece.  What's interesting is how the flick can treat complex situations in a delicate manner.

Our simple story begins with Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore), a loving wife and mother.  She truly loves her husband and son but is having trouble connecting to them for different reasons.  Mainly her husband David (Liam Neeson), for she believes that he is cheating on her.  Meanwhile, her high school son Michael (Max Thieriot), clearly does not want to have a relationship with her.  Catherine decides to find out if David is in fact cheating on her.  She enlists the help of a...

Director: Atom Egoyan Writer: Erin Cressida Wilson (screenplay) Anne Fontaine (source material "Nathalie") Starring: Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Nina Dobrev, Max Thieriot Chloe opens with music professor David Stewart (Liam Neeson) purposely missing his flight home from New York to spend time with his students, and in turn he misses the surprise birthday party waiting for him at home - orchestrated by his wife Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore). As two successful professionals, David and Catherine have become sexually stale in their marriage as they focus on their careers and raise their 17-year old son Michael who is soon graduating from high school. David's flirtatious ways with women drive Catherine's suspicions of infidelity, so Catherine takes a peek into his phone and finds messages from a young female. Days later Catherine and David are out having dinner with friends when Catherine excuses herself to the ladies room and...

Rating: 7/10

Director: Atom Egoyan

Writer: Erin Cressida Wilson

Cast: Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson

Chloe centers around a successful doctor named Catherine Stewart (played exquisitely by Julianne Moore) who has begun to question her husband’s fidelity so she does what anyone would do. She hires an escort to try and entice him into cheating. Okay, maybe its not the most conventional way to find out if your husband’s cheating but it’s certainly the sexiest. What’s interesting here is that the mystery of whether or not he’s cheating, although compelling, may not be the biggest mystery to unveil in the film. It might be Chloe herself.

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The films of Canadian Atom Egoyan can be political and intellectual, especially when his attention is on the Armenian genocide, but in his new movie Chloe, opening this week, he returns to the themes of an early work, Exotica (1994), in a Freudian teaming of mind and sex. Viewers may want to see Chloe for the unusually sensitive attention to feminine detail: shapely ankles in strappy stilettos seen from underneath adjacent toilet stalls, lacy lingerie as the mature Julianne Moore as Dr. Catherine Stewart, a gynecologist, makes her toilette, juxtaposed with the young Amanda Seyfried as Chloe, a call girl, readying for a client, or just the voyeuristic thrill of seeing these two women in bed. Liam Neeson is Professor David Stewart, the role interrupted by Natasha Richardson's death. He's involved with Chloe too, but in this suspenseful story, not...

Opening this weekend is Atom Egoyan’s new movie Chloe. Starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried, Chloe is an erotic thriller about a long married couple and a mysterious young woman. The movie is a remake of the 2004 French film Nathalie and it’s the first time Egoyan did not write the screenplay to a film he directed.

While many reviews talk about the great performances, another reason the film is getting a lot of press is due to the amount of skin the two leading ladies show. Let’s just say not a lot is left to the imagination.

To help promote the film, we’ve been given 6 clips from the movie. Check them out after the jump and look for my interview with Amanda Seyfried in the next day or two:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Sexual addiction. Infidelity. Family secrets. Betrayal. All these and more...

In the past, the films of Atom Egoyan generally have struck me as intellectual exercises that examine emotions without really pausing to feel them. Every once in a while, however, he makes a film that does locate its heart - and also uses it. The Sweet Hereafter was one; his latest, Chloe, which opens Friday (3/26/10), is another. Based on a script by Erin Cressida Wilson, Chloe casts Julianne Moore as Catherine Stewart, a Toronto gynecologist whose practice is thriving but whose life eludes her. Her teen-age son seems to have slipped out of her control and her husband, David (Liam Neeson), a college professor who apparently is catnip to the coeds, appears to have lost interest. Indeed, she's convinced that he's cheating and apparently discovers proof: an email from a female student on his cell phone, accompanied by a photo - from...

To the astute cinema enthusiast out there: mark your calendar for March 26—the debut of Chloe, the newest film starring the sublime, divine, and incredibly gifted actress Julianne Moore. Any movie starring Ms. Moore is a must-see as far as G.W. is concerned—and her latest flick, a stylishly noir sexual thriller from the Canadian movie director Adam Egoyan, is particularly special and poignant. It was on the Toronto set of Chloe where Moore’s co-star, the equally talented Liam Neeson, received word of the untimely skiing tragedy and subsequent death of his lovely wife, Natasha Richardson. One can’t help but recognize that the brooding, lumbering presence of the college professor he plays in this film was fueled by Neeson’s sudden personal tragedy. In every scene you feel his palpable angst and pain. But be that as it may, Chloe is Julianne Moore’s movie. She commands...

Now that we've got your attention... Having already watched Seyfried play fang-hockey with Megan Fox's demonic femme fatale in Jennifer's Body, Toronto audiences gripped their elbow rests as Seyfried upped the sapphic ante in Chloe, engaging in a sultry hotel-room romp with Julianne Moore. Directed by Toronto's own Atom Egoyan, Chloe reminds me of any number of thrillers about infidelity among the upper-middle class, like Unfaithful or Richard Eyre's current film The Other Man (which also stars Liam Neeson as a cuckold). Maybe it's that lesbian scene, but I couldn't help comparing the film to Jennifer's Body the most. (Like horror, infidelity is probably more interesting from the female perspective.) Both movies depict women gravitating towards each other in a world where men seem to be little more than walking erections. And in both, the attraction resolves in violence. As Chloe, however, Seyfried plays the instigator, the temptress rather than the tempted.