Since its hit arrival at the Sundance Film Festival, “Fair Play” has been hailed for reviving the long-dormant-but-often-missed erotic thriller. While there are bits of that in Domont&#…
The disquieting root of Chloe Domont’s slinky, slick feature debut “Fair Play” lies in the face of Luke as he learns that his fiance Emily has been given the promotion at their Wall Street hedge fund he thought was his.Ehrenreich, a cunning actor here given a part to chew on, conveys the moment with the just right mix of of support for Emily and shattering woundedness. Up to this point, we’ve seen Emily and Luke as only a swoon-worthy romantic pair deeply in love with one another.
Work-life balance gets more than a little wobbly in “Fair Play,” which debuts Friday on Netflix, and so do traditional gender roles. Luke initially puts up a good front, but his alpha male persona takes a beating when Emily’s meetings with the sexist boss Campbell go past midnight and banter around the office turns to his fiance. In “Fair Play,” the supportive male may just be a facade.
The movie is brilliant and breezy at first but sputters just as it’s catching fire. It may, in fact, be wrong to call this a battle of the sexes — Luke turns out to be not really up for a fight. He transforms into an emasculated and increasingly volatile wreck and “Fair Play” lurches toward a lurid and overcooked third act. For Emily — and surely countless women just like her — “Fair Play” is more of a horror movie, and an accurate one at that.
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Movie Review: In 'Fair Play,' a battle of the sexes on Wall StreetSince its hit arrival at the Sundance Film Festival, “Fair Play” has been hailed for reviving the long-dormant-but-often-missed erotic thriller. While there are bits of that in Chloe Domont’s film, “Fair Play” is neither especially erotic nor much of a thriller. What it is, though, is often gripping battle of the sexes set in a toxic, misogynist corporate world where power and sex are inextricably linked currencies, writes Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review. The movie is brilliant and breezy at first but sputters just as its catching fire. But for a while, Domont’s film is electric thanks to its lead actors and Domont's playful script.
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Scott G. Eberle Ph.D.Scott G. Eberle, Ph.D., is the vice president for play studies at The Strong, editor of its American Journal of Play, and lead contributor to its re:Play Blog.
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