Directed by:
Atom EgoyanScreenplay:
Atom EgoyanCinematography:
Paul SarossyComposer:
Mychael DannaCast:
Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Polley, Victor Garber, Maury Chaykin, David Hemblen, Damon D'Oliveira (more)VOD (1)
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One of the defining independent films of the 1990s, Atom Egoyan’s mesmerizing international breakthrough Exotica takes the conventions of the psychological thriller into bold new territory—unsettling, dreamlike, and empathetic. At the neon-drenched Toronto strip club of the film’s title, a coterie of lost and damaged souls—including a man haunted by grief (Bruce Greenwood), a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond (Mia Kirshner), an obsessive emcee (Elias Koteas), and a smuggler of rare bird eggs (Don McKellar)—search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis. Masterfully weaving together past and present, Egoyan constructs a spellbinding narrative puzzle, the full emotional impact of which doesn’t hit until the last piece is in place. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Mia Kirshner
Canada
Best movies:
Murder in the First (1995)
Exotica (1994)
Anna Karenina (1997)
Don McKellar
Canada
Best movies:
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
The Red Violin (1998)
The Adjuster (1991)
Arsinée Khanjian
Lebanon
Best movies:
Next of Kin (1984)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Felicia's Journey (1999)
Elias Koteas
Canada
Best movies:
Shutter Island (2010)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Gattaca (1997)
Bruce Greenwood
Canada
Best movies:
First Blood (1982)
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
Star Trek (2009)
Sarah Polley
Canada
Best movies:
John Adams (2008) (series)
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
My Life Without Me (2003)
Victor Garber
Canada
Best movies:
Titanic (1997)
Dark Waters (2019)
Argo (2012)
Maury Chaykin
USA
Best movies:
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Whale Music (1994)
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) (series)
David Hemblen
UK
Best movies:
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) (series)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
M. Butterfly (1993)
Damon D'Oliveira
Best movies:
Exotica (1994)
Short Circuit 2 (1988)
Back in Action (1994)
Jack Blum
Best movies:
Exotica (1994)
Siege (1983)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)