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Domont, place de la gare - Source Val d'Oise autrefois.

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Domont.

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Fair Play (Drama, Mystery, Thriller) In this episode of "Movies First," host Alex First dives into the intense world of high-stakes trading with a review of the romantic psychological drama "Fair Play." The film, starring Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, and Eddie Marsan, and directed by Chloe Domont, explores the complexities of love and ambition within the ruthless environment of stock market trading. **Episode Summary:** Join Alex First for an in-depth discussion about "Fair Play," a film that navigates the turbulent waters of a relationship strained by career pressures and workplace politics. Set against the backdrop of a competitive hedge fund, the story revolves around Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) and Emily (Phoebe Dynevor), two analysts whose secret romance becomes jeopardized by their professional lives. **Key Points:** - **A Secret Romance:** Discover how Luke and Emily's engagement, a joyous milestone, becomes tainted by the harsh realities of their careers, highlighting the film's central theme of personal versus professional life. - **Rising Tensions:** As Emily's career skyrockets and Luke's stagnates, witness their relationship spiral from passionate to tense, reflecting the cutthroat nature of their industry. - **Powerful Performances:** Hear about the compelling chemistry between Ehrenreich and Dynevor, whose characters' journey from supportive partners to resentful adversaries captivates the audience. - **Masculinity and Power:** Learn about the film's portrayal of aggression and toxic masculinity, particularly through Eddie Marsan's character, Campbell, whose ruthless leadership style exemplifies the hedge fund's merciless atmosphere. - **Cinematic Elements:** From the authentic depiction of the characters' daily routines to the impactful cinematography, find out how these elements contribute to the movie's immersive quality. **Critical Insights:** Alex shares his critiques, praising the film's exploration of gender dynamics and ambition but noting the less convincing aspects, such as certain secondary performances and an ending that feels somewhat overextended. **Conclusion:** Despite some flaws, "Fair Play" impresses as a gripping tale of love, ambition, and betrayal, earning a solid seven out of ten from our host. It's a cinematic journey that movie enthusiasts and critics alike should not miss. Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1976944409/?playlistId=tt16304446&ref_=tt_pr_ov_vi **Listen to More:** For more insightful reviews, subscribe to "Movies First" on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or your favorite podcast platform. Stream on demand at bitesz.com for more quality podcast productions. Don't miss an episode of "Movies First" with Alex First, where you get the first take on the latest movies hitting the big screen. To listen on your favourite app, your one click universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/moviesfirst Movies First RSS : https://www.spreaker.com/show/2648009/episodes/feed Stream podcast episodes on demand from https://www.bitesz.com/show/movies-first-reviews/ (mobile friendly). For more from Alex visit our new website: https://moviesfirstpodcast.com or www.bitesz.com Subscribe, rate and review Movies First at all good podcast apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, Spreaker, etc. For more, follow Movies First on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube : Facebook - @moviesfirst Twitter - @MoviesFirst YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCatJQHaVabIvzCLqO16XvSQ If you're enjoying Movies First, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you. #movies #cinema #entertainment #podcast #reviews #moviesfirst For more, follow Movies First on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube : Facebook - @moviesfirst Twitter - @MoviesFirst YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCatJQHaVabIvzCLqO16XvSQ If you're enjoying Movies First, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you. #movies #cinema #entertainment #podcast #reviews #moviesfirst

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Fair Play (2023)

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Alden Ehrenreich, writer-director Chloe Dumont and Phoebe Dynevor attend the premiere of "Fair Play" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 21, 2023. This is a cast photo shoot.

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Fair Play (2023) - Just some thoughts.

DISCLAIMER - I want to give a disclaimer as this film does deal with SA and I will be discussing it, so please feel free to skip this one if this topic isn't for you, but I will give a warning if you would still like to read.

So, a couple of days ago I watched this film which was on my ‘to watch’ list for AGES, Fair Play which was directed and written by Chloe Domont (we LOVE a female writer/director), and it was so captivating the whole way through. The way this film got me invested in a hedge fund is mind-blowing because it became so much less about what the job was and more about the character dynamics – this could’ve truly been in any setting, and I would’ve watched this. I will be discussing spoilers so if you haven’t already, PLEASE go and watch the film, if you love films that discuss a complex dynamic between men and women, I think you’ll enjoy this one.

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I truly appreciated how the film depicted women in power, particularly within a relationship, the movie starts with a very happy couple that have become recently engaged (Emily and Luke), and they work for the same hedge fund company where they keep their relationship a secret. Something we’re shown very early on is men and their reaction toward their failures – when their manager gets fired at the beginning, we see the man destroy his office in a fit of rage, yelling that the company needs him and that it is their fault and not his. We see this foreshadowed in Luke further into the film, but we’ll discuss that later.

After their ex-manager’s explosion, there are rumours around the office that Luke got the promotion in which we see Emily’s face as she hears this, and through the audience we see how she reacts positively to this information, you know as any NORMAL human would (I’m looking at you Luke…). Emily tells Luke without a hint of malice or jealousy; she is simply happy for her significant other in this moment.

However, when Emily gets called in to drink with a colleague, she’s surprised to find her boss gives her the promotion instead of Luke. We smash cut to Emily in the car and she tells Luke that she got the promotion instead, whom facilitates a VERY different reaction to the news and is stooped but eventually congratulates her. Not without asking if their boss had touched her, of course, because obviously women just can’t get a promotion because she’s good.

It’s from then we see this couple spiral out of love and become vastly different people than they started. Emily starts to earn a lot more than Luke does, she offers to take him out to dinner, she ends up coming home late, even goes to a strip club which fully blurs the line of gender dynamics and the idea of ‘masculinity’. Her success at work is shown through Luke’s myopic view of what a man should be like, and even challenges our view of what a successful woman looks like – when success is relegated by a male perspective, can it hinder our view of a successful woman?

When another PM is fired, we see Luke beg for the job only for the position to be filled within an instant by someone else (I thought this was hilarious by the way) and Emily tells him that instead of promoting him, their boss was considering firing him. Which speaks a lot to the fact that he was doing so terribly that his boss was going to fire him, and yet he was just so sure that he deserved that promotion (typical am I right?). It’s then where Luke goes missing, only to return to do the one thing he can think of to make Emily feel as he does – embarrassed. So, he reveals their relationship in the hopes that it gets her fired (which it does not) and publicly shames her in front of important clients.

Okay so I’m going to talk about the scene in which Emily is R-worded by Luke so please skip this paragraph if need be. This scene arrives when Luke has well and truly fired from their firm, and unbeknownst to Emily’s parents they put on an engagement party not aware of the tensions between the two. In this scene, we feel Emily’s rage and her nervousness to see Luke, he has completely transformed over the film, mind you in a very realistic manner. When Emily confronts Luke, we see his true feelings towards their situation, when he argues that she offered sexual favours to their boss, and in response she smashes a bottle over his head (rightly so). It’s then that she runs away to the bathroom where he follows, and they continue to argue before they start to engage in… acts – which parallels when we first meet them in the scene at his brother’s wedding party (in that scene they face each other, however in this scene Luke controls Emily). However, Luke starts to get rough with Emily, and she tells him to stop but he doesn’t and slams her down into the sink, leaving a massive bruise on her face.

Now, I’ve never liked it when films contain an R-word scene, particularly as it feels incredibly obtrusive, and while it gives the desired reaction (discomfort), it is also viewed through a male gaze most of the time where we focus on the brutality the MAN is giving rather than how the WOMAN feels in this matter. And in this scene, it’s a shame that it doesn’t seem like the latter; I just think I’m of the majority of people who feel that these types of scenes aren’t needed and it could’ve been portrayed a lot better – I also find it interesting that people reviewing the film tend to leave out this scene, instead calling it a ‘sexy’ or ‘erotic’ thriller, which just feels very pedantic in a way.

The next scene shows Emily covering her bruise and telling her boss at the hedge fund that Luke was a crazy stalker, whom she did date but became out of control. We see then the boss doesn’t care, because Emily is worth keeping there. When she returns to her apartment, Luke is there who appears nonchalant about what happened and tells Emily that he’s staying at his brother’s. Emily, enraged by this, demands he apologises for assaulting her and attacking him until he cries and begs for forgiveness for him (she is also in this scene towering over him and he is sprawled on the floor and I guess you could argue mimics her assault in some way). As his blood is spilled on the floor, the film ends with her telling him to clean it up.

I remember watching this film and thinking that it was really odd that it showed Emily getting her period a few times, particularly at the beginning, but after seeing the whole thing, it made more sense. The idea of a period is something quite powerful, when we think of blood spilling, I think we most associate that with violence and domination, which also coincides with a period cycle. The idea that people who deal with periods, spill blood monthly but it is not deemed as powerful. So when at the climactic end of the film when Emily slashes Luke and spills his blood (and makes him clean it up, what a queen); Domont had created this connection of a woman being innately powerful.

So overall, this film was really something, I ended up enjoying a lot more than I thought I would, and while it does have some faults, it brings a very interesting topic through a very sleek and stylish manner. I would love to see what Domont does next.

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Fair Play

Well, it's only October 7th, but Fair Play premiered last night on Netflix and it's one of the best movies of 2023. Written and directed by Chloe Domont, who says that she set out to write "a thriller about power dynamics on the ugliest level" and she did just that. I cannot get the scenes out of my head so here's a fair play warning: some minor spoilers ahead, and discussion of sexual assault and crap relationships apply.

While my mind still debates female empowerment and the "male fragility" presented, the shifts and twists of these two characters, Emily and Luke, played brilliantly by Phoebe Dynevor (far, far away from Bridgerton) and Alden Ahrenreich, made me think that both had lost their minds. Domont says that she based the movie on her own experiences at the work place, which says a lot about the work yet to be done in many industries as far as equality between all genders or gender neutral alike.

So let's hit up the most graphic of scenes, not for the faint of heart so be warned. Consensual sex turned ugly, ends in rape, and heartbreaking disbelief that two people could do this to each other, especially what he does to her. For most of us women, it may resurface one relationship or another where a sexual encounter turned to something else entirely, and we move ourselves into that "get it over with" place, let it happen, with or without the bruising. Admit it, we've all been there, but hopefully not to this extreme. Made my heart race watching, and not in a romantic way. Guys take notes.

My uncomfortable feeling watching the last half of this film was enhanced when my husband joined to watch. Did I harbor a secret fear that he'd blame Emily in some way for all of it? Yes, I did. I waited for some fucking comment, but he said nothing, equally stunned, I think, or the fact that he was perusing his iPad at the same time might have toned down his opinions. LOL. While the movie haunts me, it might not effect others at all.

Last line: "Now wipe the blood off my floor, and get out. I'm done with you now."

Congrats to Chloe Domont for writing and directing this brilliant film.

Reference: Elle Magazine

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Fair Play

directed by Chloe Domont, 2023

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Domont, place de la gare - Source Val d'Oise autrefois.

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#68: Fair Play (2023, dir. by Chloe Domont)

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Fair Play is a very bold and effective feminist film disguised as a Wall Street erotic drama, like the ones that populated cinema screens in the late 80s and early 90s. But here, in the age of #MeToo, comes a film on a streaming platform after premiering at Sundance and having only a limited theatrical release; that is a true revelation. Starring a very sexy young couple, played by up & coming Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich (redeeming himself after Solo), the film by newcomer Chloe Domont is a sneaky little drama that will captivate you till the last "cut." Although it plays within genre rules, you won't know what to expect for the duration of its 2-hour run, while you'll rediscover the world of hedge funds and golden boys, expertly written by a director who must have done some thorough research. The success of the film is that you'll find yourself rooting for both characters, constantly altering your perspective to eventually come to terms with your own prejudice and false beliefs at the end. Shock and awe. That's how great drama used to have the audience feel. And now, it's served on Netflix.

B+

Trailer: https://youtu.be/vICUPlr3EEI

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Fair Play (2023)

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Chloe Domont captured by Norman Wong.