Exotica

Name: Exotica
Genre: Drama
Released: March 24, 1995
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Arsinée Khanjian, Bruce Greenwood, Calvin Green, David Hemblen, Don McKellar

1995

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Movie Details & Credits

Miramax | Release Date: March 24, 1995 | R

Starring: Arsinée Khanjian, Bruce Greenwood, Calvin Green, David Hemblen, Don McKellar, Elias Koteas, Jack Blum, Mia Kirshner, Sarah Polley, Victor Garber

Summary: A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club, Exotica, trying to find solace - but even there his past hides among him.

Director: Atom Egoyan

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Roger Ebert

Exotica is a movie labyrinth, winding seductively into the darkest secrets of a group of people who should have no connection with one another, but do. Read full review

John Petrakis

Exotica may be a gloomy journey up river, but it's a trip worth taking. See it with a friend. One who has something to say. [03 Mar 1995, p.J]

Peter Travers

Egoyan is an acquired taste, but once in, you’re hooked. Exotica is Egoyan’s most accomplished and seductive film to date — even tackling acute psychic distress, Egoyan’s deadpan comic eye never flinches. Read full review

Mike Clark

Though some have taken this '94 film fest fave fairly straight, it strikes me as eerily arch and quite the sly hoot as it connects maybe two-thirds of the time. [07 Mar 1995, p.4D]

Carrie Rickey

In his newest film Egoyan memorably gets under the skin of the skin trade. [10 Mar 1995, p.03]

Leonard Klady

There's demonstrable growth in his visual and narrative skills here but the writer/director isn't likely to expand his audience with the sometimes oblique, unnerving saga of interwoven lives whose paths cross with alternately comic and tragic results. Read full review

Desson Thomson

At its worst, which ends up being most of the time, the movie traps us in art-house pretentiousness, as we're obliged to follow the yearnings and abstract corruptions of the urban zestless. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Apr 5, 2021

''Exotica is a special place''

It's not what it seems at first, and is built step by step with themes ranging from obsession to loneliness. Broken characters that don't seem to know what they're looking for, they only know what they get in that place and in the moment. This is the best''Exotica is a special place''

It's not what it seems at first, and is built step by step with themes ranging from obsession to loneliness.

Broken characters that don't seem to know what they're looking for, they only know what they get in that place and in the moment.

This is the best Atom Egoyan movie I've seen so far.… Expand

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Broyax

Mar 28, 2021

Un film dramatique ou pseudo-dramatique particulièrement décousu et bavard… qu’il soit décousu n’est pas très gênant au début, vu que ça se passe dans une boîte à strip-tease avec des bombasses affriolantes mais malheureusement, on se retrouve vite comme ces blaireaux qui matent des culs enUn film dramatique ou pseudo-dramatique particulièrement décousu et bavard… qu’il soit décousu n’est pas très gênant au début, vu que ça se passe dans une boîte à strip-tease avec des bombasses affriolantes mais malheureusement, on se retrouve vite comme ces blaireaux qui matent des culs en tirant la gueule (mais pas la gueuse) : on se fait vite chier…

La mise en scène est du genre à deux de tension, tout comme la distribution molle et mal dirigée, à l’unisson (à l’insu de leur plein gré peut-être) de ce merdier psycho-dramatique dont on se fout totalement : pas crédible, mal raconté, mal écrit, mal fait… On a d’ailleurs l’impression (confirmée) de se taper un téléfilm foireux qui casse pas trois couilles à un canard impuissant… mais qui nous les casse assez sévèrement, je dois dire !

Une daube qui n’a d’exotique que le nom et strictement aucun intérêt, à part s’écouter parler et meubler sa peur du vide, de son vide scénaristique avec de la merde !… Expand

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