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Exotica (1994)
Director: Atom Egoyan
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From Time Out Film Guide
Characteristically stylish, intriguing film from Atom Egoyan, heavy on the eroticism and mystification as it delves into the lives of a number of characters connected by their relationship to the strip joint of the title: the owner and MC; a table-dancer; a taxman obsessed with the dancer; and a pet-shop proprietor, whose business the taxman is auditing. It's another excursion into projected fantasies, anxiety, exploitation and secret needs; the elegant camerawork and intense performances sustain interest, although the fragmentation of the plot sometimes seems unnecessarily obscurantist - finally, the mystery is not so very startling or significant. Fascinating, though, and without the pretensions that have marred some of Egoyan's earlier work.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Atom Egoyan
Producer: Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg
Cast: Don McKellar, Mia Kirshner, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Polley full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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