‘Fair Play’ Filmmaker Chloe Domont On Locking The Audience Within The First Ten Minutes For Her Roller Coaster Erotic Thriller – Crew Call Podcast

As we head into Oscar balloting on Thursday, let's not forget about Chloe Domont's Fair Play which reawakened the erotic thriller, and specifically spoke to the Me-Too era. The MRC and T-Street production went into Sundance last year under the radar and became the fest's first big deal with Netflix scooping up the Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor movie for $20M.

January 8, 2024 · 1 min · 123 words · Michael Daniels

Domont says shed inflate my confidence to be the face and the leader on some of these shows.

And it just made me realize how much hold these ingrained power dynamics still have over us today.

Im not interested in making films that stay within the confines of one genre or traditional genre.

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Phoebe Dynevor, Chloe Domont and Alden Ehrenreich of Fair Play at the Deadline Sundance Studio.Michael Buckner for Deadline

Ive always said that this a thriller about power dynamics between men and women.

But theres something off from the onset about the encounter.

And it was like, how do you do that in a way thats new?

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And I thought, well, that is the sign of a great partnership already.