Exotica
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1994 • Canada
Starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas
Atom Egoyan’s acclaimed commercial breakthrough is both a seductive, hypnotic thriller and a shattering meditation on loss and grief. At the eponymous strip club, Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a deeply depressed tax auditor, pays nightly visits to Christina (Mia Kirshner), a young dancer with whom he develops a curiously symbiotic relationship. Swirling around them are Eric (Elias Koteas), the house DJ, who is jealousy possessive of Christina; Zoe (Arsinée Khanjian), the club’s owner, who is pregnant by Eric; and Thomas (Don McKellar), a smuggler of rare bird eggs whose activities Francis is investigating. Each is connected by a history of trauma and despair, the depths of which gradually come into haunting focus.
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Exotica
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1994 • Canada
Starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Elias KoteasAtom Egoyan’s acclaimed commercial breakthrough is both a seductive, hypnotic thriller and a shattering meditation on loss and grief. At the eponymous strip club, Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a deeply depr...
Extras
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EXOTICA Commentary
This commentary track, recorded in 2012, features director Atom Egoyan and composer Mychael Danna.
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EXOTICA at Cannes, 1994
EXOTICA premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994. The following audio excerpts from the film’s press conference there feature director Atom Egoyan, actors Bruce Greenwood and Arsinée Khanjian, and producer Camelia Frieberg.
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Atom Egoyan and Sarah Polley on EXOTICA
The following conversation between director Atom Egoyan and actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley was recorded in Toronto in June 2022.
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Atom Egoyan on CALENDAR
This interview with director Atom Egoyan was recorded in 2022.
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Calendar
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1993 • Canada
Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom EgoyanAtom Egoyan’s at once witty and devastating investigation of identity, memory, and displacement stars the director as a Canadian photographer who, while on an assignment shooting churches in Armenia, fi...
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En passant
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1991 • Canada
Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Maury ChaykinIn 1991, six of Canada’s most talented directors collaborated on MONTRÉAL VU PAR . . ., a cinematic tribute to the city of Montreal on the occasion of its 350th birthday. Atom Egoyan’s contribution, EN PASSANT, conj...
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Artaud Double Bill
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2007 • France
Starring Antonin Artaud, Maury ChaykinARTAUD DOUBLE BILL is a short Atom Egoyan made for the 2007 anthology film CHACUN SON CINÉMA, commissioned for the sixtieth edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
