Plot via Sundance
Hot off the heels of their new engagement, thriving New York couple Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) can’t get enough of each other. When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, supportive exchanges between the lovers begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, Luke and Emily must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition.
Review notes:
The erotic thriller get a serious juicing up in Chloe Domont (Ballers) feature debut Fair Play.
Alden Ehrenreich (Solo) and Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) play competing hedge fund junior analysts and lovers whose relationship goes south when one gets an unexpected promotion that the other wanted and was expecting.
The unexpected one is male. The expected one is female. Cue gender identity and politics erupting.
The intensity in Fair Play shows. It’s impressive enough for Netflix to pay $20 million to acquire it.
Domont, who also wrote the script, keeps everything at the frenetic sub-horror film level. It is constantly threatening to go off the rails.
Ehrenreich and Dynevor extract every bit of good and bad humanity from their roles. They never let Fair Play fall into one dimensional characterizations of victimhood and villainy. They’re Fair Play major virtue.
It gets a 3.5 out of 5 or a B+.
Credits
DIRECTOR(S)
CHLOE DOMONT
SCREENWRITER
CHLOE DOMONT
PRODUCER
LEOPOLD HUGHES
BEN LECLAIR
TIM WHITE
TREVOR WHITE
ALLAN MANDELBAUM
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
RIAN JOHNSON
RAM BERGMAN
PRINCIPAL CAST
PHOEBE DYNEVOR
ALDEN EHRENREICH
EDDIE MARSAN
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
MENNO MANS
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
STEVE SUMMERSGILL
EDITOR
FRANKLIN PETERSON
MUSIC BY
BRIAN MCOMBER
COSTUME DESIGNER
KATE FORBES
PRODUCTION COMPANY
T- STREET
STAR THROWER
YEAR
2022
CATEGORY
FEATURE
COUNTRY
UNITED STATES
LANGUAGE
ENGLISH
RUN TIME
113 MIN
COMPANY
MRC
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