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At that point, Catherine hires Chloe, a young but sophisticated call girl who haunts the lobbies of luxury hotels. Chloe’s assignment is clear: entrapment. She is to make a move on David and see if he takes the bait.
For a while, the film explores some of the emotional fault lines that lie in any long-term relationship. Catherine, feeling her own youth evaporating, feels cheated that David is more desirable than ever, in her view. And it’s here where the film might have confronted some unspoken but explosive issues of fidelity, age and sexual attraction. It might have had some valuable insights on that painful question that has preoccupied couples at least since Diana Ross and the Supremes: Where did our love go?
Instead, “Chloe,” as it name implies, is much more interested in the young prostitute and her various pathologies. After Catherine and Chloe’s unusual arrangement takes an unexpected turn toward the erotic, the film still had the chance to say something about female sexuality. But again, the lure of portraying sexy/crazy gets the best of Egoyan, and the film overripens into a puerile variation of “Fatal Attraction.”