It was the perfect recreation of a vintage erotic thriller. This was a trashy, panting corporate drama set in 2023 that looked and acted like it was still 1993. What people keyed into was the throwback thrill that Domont and her leads (Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor) were channeling so beautifully. It wasn’t just the now-notorious opening scene of a couple getting it on in the bathroom during a wedding, or the kinks that keeps a secret relationship between these competitive Wall Street sharks in maximum-horny mode, or even the looming threat of violence lurking around every downtown New York corner.
When Fair Play, Chloe Domont’s wonderfully salacious thriller, premiered at Sundance this past January, festival audiences immediately reacted to this tale of two financial analysts gunning for a golden-ticket client and C-suite brass ring.
