Director Atom Egoyan's Chloe, starring Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore, and Liam Neeson, is out today. A thriller about a suspicious woman who hires a prostitute to seduce and spy on her husband, Egoyan's film is a re-make of French director Anna Fontaine's 2004 Nathalie. Filmed in the posh suburbs of Toronto–as opposed to Paris–Chloe apparently fully realizes the erotic relationship between the two female leads that was left, in Fontaine's words, "unsatisfied" in the original due to reluctance from her actresses (Moore, for her part, assures audiences that Chloe is "not exploitative"). Below, a quick exploration of how the two film's stack up to one another in more safe-for-work ways.
In Nathalie, the suspicious Catherine is played by the very French-looking Fanny Ardant (left). Egoyan recruited perhaps the world's most recognizable redhead, Julianne Moore. 
Nathalie's (un)lucky husband, Bernard is played by Gérard Depardieu, who bears a striking resemblance to his Chloe counterpart, Liam Neeson.
Amanda Seyfried has certainly mastered French actress Emmanuelle Béart's head tilt, but her sublter highlights and Mean Girls-esque makeup certainly give her a more wholesome look. Whether that's what you want in a hired seductress is up to you.
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