Details: Amazon.ca Until the filmmaker made The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica was the most accessible of Atom Egoyan's films. True to form, the Toronto-based director blends family and voyeurism, memory and desire, intimate wounds and public fantasies in this troubling and seductive urban tale. At the Exotica, an exotic strip club, we cross paths with a widower (Bruce Greenwood) fascinated by a young stripper (Mia Kirshner); an energized D.J. (Elias Koteas); a pregnant madam (Arsinée Khanjian), who owns the place; and a young gay man who smuggles exotic birds' eggs (Don McKellar)! In the background, the police are searching for a missing child... The plots cross, overlap, and echo one another. At the center of this complex network of influences: sexuality. Sublimated, forbidden, magnified, trivialized, or repressed, it serves as the driving force for all these characters in search of both the low and the high. Complex in its form, Exotica is nevertheless the least cerebral of Egoyan's films. Moving away from formal preoccupations as the narrative progresses, the filmmaker leads, with great dexterity, a suspense story that culminates in a gripping finale. This $2 million film, which looks like it cost 10 times more on screen, is as rich visually as it is emotionally. The mark of a filmmaker in full possession of his craft. Éric Fourlanty

UPC: 717951003249

EAN: 9786305428107

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood