Chloe Domont sat behind an audience watching her debut film, ‘Fair Play,’ at the Sundance Film Festival in January, her eyes were locked on the 80-something-year-old man sitting in front of her. “There’s no way he’s the target audience,” she thought. “I hope I don’t give this man a heart attack.” It’s not a crazy concern.
The film’s opening sequence unfolds in the bathroom of a wedding as two guests sneak away to have sex, not realizing their mid-reception quickie will be grossly betrayed by a mess of menstrual blood.
It’s funny, shocking and maybe a little terrifying to imagine the racy scene playing out in front of someone who could be your grandfather.
Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich star in “Fair Play,” a rare film with substance and style and wit to match the flash, about a young couple who keep their relationship secret because they work together at a rule-bound, cutthroat hedge fund run by a sociopathic boss (Eddie Marsan) and his cohort of toxic bros.
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