Although Atom Egoyan is certainly a hard working director, it is rare that we have the opportunity to present two new films by the same filmmaker in successive guides (Adoration screened at DCA in January). With Chloe, Egoyan, although exploring the darker and more dangerous aspects of sexual relationships, also reveals an emotional quality which hasn’t been as obvious in his work since The Sweet Hereafter.

Catherine (the definitely hard-working Julianne Moore) and David (Liam Neeson) have an idyllic marriage and a wonderful life together. She is a doctor, he a university professor, and they have a wonderful teenage son. But when David is late coming home from a business trip, Catherine starts to question their happiness. Desperate to uncover his infidelity, she decides to hire an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to prove her suspicions are genuine. Before long, Catherine has become deeply entangled in the web she has created, and as the relationship between all three characters intensifies, there is no turning back.

Making the most of the city of Toronto’s hotspots, Egoyan sets his characters in a world of hard modern surfaces, glass and mirrors, reflecting the distorted and fractured reality of his characters. Chloe is a sophisticated, sizzling, cautionary tale of what lies beneath the surface of a perfect life.

All screenings of Chloe are audio described, if you'd lke headphones to listen to the audio description, please ask an usher as you go in to the cinema.