TORONTO — Sapphic lip-locks are big here this year. Uber-hottie Megan Fox gives Amanda Seyfried a lengthy soul kiss in the horror spoof “Jennifer’s Body,” which opens stateside on Friday. Seyfried also smooches Julianne Moore in the thriller “Chloe” — and does a whole lot, uh, Moore in a steamy sex scene in a hotel.
Sort of a cross between “Unfaithful” and “Fatal Attraction,” “Chloe” is a trashy remake of a French film, and it’s directed by Atom Egoyan, generally known for more serious and cerebral fare. Moore plays a Toronto gynecologist who suspects her music prof hubby (Liam Neeson) is cheating, so she hires high-class escort Seyfried to tempt him.
Seyfried’s account of her trysts so turn on Moore that she ends up doing the horizontal mambo with the younger woman, who has some sort of mommy issues. When Moore comes to her senses, the smitten Seyfried trains her seductive skills on Moore and Neeson’s college-age son.
This wildly improbable yarn produced unintended titters at the press screening I attended. But it qualifies as enough of a guilty pleasure (with enough nudity) to probably find a US distributor for its producers, who include Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”), a major benefactor of TIFF.
Neeson, who appears to be acting in a more serious movie than his co-stars, has an abbreviated role — perhaps because his real-life wife, Natasha Richardson, died while he was in the middle of shooting “Chloe.”
Moore also enjoys a short kiss with a woman in “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” in which she briefly appears as a lesbian photographer who poses the teenage version of the main character (played by Blake Lively) in bondage gear as she is being spanked.
Yet another gay-themed film with Moore is “A Single Man,” set in the 1960s. I haven’t yet seen the directorial debut of designer Tom Ford, but Moore reportedly tries to seduce a gay friend who has recently lost his partner.
The friend is played by Colin Firth — yes, one of Seyfried’s possible dads (also gay) in “Mamma Mia!” — who also pops up at TIFF in a homoerotically drenched but dull remake of “Dorian Gray.”
Another girlie kiss much talked about here is on the cover of this month’s Marie Claire magazine. Oscar nominee Ellen Page (“Juno”) swaps spit with Drew Barrymore, her director and co-star in “Whip It.” Alas, there is no girl-on-girl action in this film about roller derby players, though there is a teasing shot of two Barbie-style dolls locked in a naked embrace.