Exotica

Exotica

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1994 • Canada
Starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas

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, a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond, an obsessive emcee, and a smuggler of rare bird eggs—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.

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Exotica
  • Exotica
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    Exotica

    Exotica

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1994 • Canada
    Starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas

    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, dr...

Extras

  • EXOTICA Commentary
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    EXOTICA Commentary

    EXOTICA Commentary

    This commentary track, recorded in 2012, features director Atom Egoyan and composer Mychael Danna.

  • EXOTICA at Cannes, 1994
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    EXOTICA at Cannes, 1994

    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.

  • Atom Egoyan and Sarah Polley on EXOTICA
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    Atom Egoyan and Sarah Polley on EXOTICA

    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.

  • Atom Egoyan on CALENDAR
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    Atom Egoyan on CALENDAR

    Atom Egoyan on CALENDAR

    This interview with director Atom Egoyan was recorded in 2022.

  • Calendar
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    Calendar

    Calendar

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1993 • Canada
    Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom Egoyan

    Atom 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...

  • Peep Show
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    Peep Show

    Peep Show

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1981 • Canada
    Starring John Ball

    Atom Egoyan made the short film PEEP SHOW in 1981, during his studies at the University of Toronto.

  • En passant
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    En passant

    En passant

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1991 • Canada
    Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin

    In 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...

  • Artaud Double Bill
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    Artaud Double Bill

    Artaud Double Bill

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2007 • France
    Starring Antonin Artaud, Maury Chaykin

    ARTAUD 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.

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