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	Demystifying Exotica
		On the surface, Exotica could be considered one of your typical sexploitation flicks that appeals to the lowest common denominator, the most recent being "Showgirls" and "Striptease".
		However, upon watching the film, the story of the relationships between the characters is slowly unveiled and a commentary on the value of relationships in the postmodern age is formed.
		Like the slow striptease of that Christina performs on the stage of Club Exotica, revelations about the characters are shed for the audience: Thomas' smuggling operation, the reason for Christina's loyalty to Francis, the lesbian relationship between Zoe and Christina, the murder of Francis' daughter, and the relationship between Eric and Christina.
	users.aol.com /aleong1631/exotica.html (1279 words)

	Exotica
		Exotica itself is a lush and fantastic place -- sort of a sinister cross between The Playboy Channel and a Fellini film, with a thundering Leonard Cohen soundtrack.
		At Exotica (as in, one supposes, an erotic film), voyeurism is a frustrated alias for emotional intercourse, and mother figure Zoe respects the power of those relationships, even as she zealously protects her dancers from customers who commit the ultimate transgression of touching a performer.
		Egoyan's achievement in Exotica is singularly fitting, as he yokes the experience of the movie audience to that of the audience in his film, acknowledging erotic needs without condemning them, and stripping down the obsessions that color a life.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/exotica.html (684 words)

	FilmJudge - Exotica (1995)
		The film is merely a light filtered in a special way to reveal images, just as the mirror filters the images of the characters.
		The one way mirrors at Exotica were built, not for protection, but for observation of the dancers, Christina says.
		Exotica seeks to have us go beyond the surface image to what is not shown.
	www.filmjudge.ca /e/exotica.htm (848 words)

	Exotica (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plot Summary: The 'Exotica' is a nightclub on the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and MC, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs...
		The film is told in a non-linear style, which is usually very refreshing, but I found that while I was willing to endure the very slow pacing for a great denouement, particularly because I felt like I was being set up for one, I didn't get one.
		These problems with the film are in direct contrast with the beautiful and stylish cinematography and the fairly rich character development.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0109759 (572 words)

	"Иван-Дурак" - English page
		Films include "The Desire to See a Film of Rainer Warner Fassbinder" (co-produced and co-directed with Alexander Doulerain) which was awarded Special Prize at the New York Film Academy, and "Dachniky" (also co-produced and co-directed with Alexander Doulerain) which won the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg.
		To date, Cine Fantom has produced hundreds of films, and film and video projects, many of which are award winners, several of which are parts of permanent collections of film museums around the world.
		But the young authors of the film are so fond of process that they have no time to formulate the conception of their film.
	ivandurak.film.ru /english.asp (1980 words)

	Exotica (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Exotica is a 1994 Canadian film set primarily in and around a Toronto nightclub of the same name.
		Exotica presents a disparate group of characters whose lives are interconnected through the Exotica nightclub.
		At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, Exotica was nominated for the Palme d'or, and won the FIPRESCI Prize.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exotica_(movie) (517 words)

	Amazon.com: Exotica: DVD: David Hemblen,Mia Kirshner,Calvin Green,Elias Koteas,Bruce Greenwood,Don McKellar,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the film progresses, the inspector's psyche gradually disintegrates, until finally there is a denouement of denouements at the end of the film.
		Exotica is a deeply thoughtful mystery where no one and nothing is what it seems and where those who appear at first to be villains can be saints.
		Exotica is a study on the nature and affects on loss, and whilst it may take a couple of viewings to soak it all in, that is more to the power that it contains.
	www.amazon.com /Exotica-David-Hemblen/dp/6305428107 (2167 words)

	Amazon.ca: Exotica: DVD: David Hemblen,Mia Kirshner,Calvin Green,Elias Koteas,Bruce Greenwood,Don McKellar,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Exotica was a real breakthrough for Egoyan; his direction here is deft, and we see his artistic style developing, which later found full expression in The Sweet Hereafter.
		Exotica is a gentleman's club in the Toronto area that ties lives of four characters together through their personal involvement as customers or workers.
		This film is a brilliant cinematic experience, which leaves a lot of room for the audience to muse and enjoy the journey of the four characters.
	www.amazon.ca /Exotica-David-Hemblen/dp/B000065K27 (1602 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Exotica at Epinions.com
		Not a Typical Sex Film, "Exotica" is a Provocative, Psychological Masterpiece from the Puzzling Mind of Atom Egoyan.
		Egoyan’s films are often filled with puzzling subplots and storylines that slowly entrances the audiences as they put the pieces together and see what happens at the end.
		Francis meanwhile, is more tortured than ever when he’s in Exotica as he is in the bathroom where Eric in a fake accent coaxes him to touch Christina during her lap dance (a rule you cannot do at strip clubs).
	www.epinions.com /content_132011101828 (1988 words)

	Atom Egoyan - Armeniapedia.org
		The film Ararat (2002) also generated some publicity for Egoyan, as it was the first major motion picture to deal directly with the Armenian Genocide.
		In that sense, the complex associations among the film’s various elements must be seen as a heroic but doomed attempt to capture the fullness of the Genocide and its implications, both personal and collective.
		It is reminiscent of perhaps the single most affecting moment in the film, in which Gorky, struggling to paint his mother’s portrait, gives himself over to the music playing on his phonograph and dances to it, palette and paintbrush in hand.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Atom_Egoyan (1460 words)

	Exotica
		The importance of this film can hardly be overstated as it won the International Critics' Award at Cannes, top awards in Belgium and France and swept the Genies in Canada with a nomination for Bruce Greenwood himself as Best Actor.
		Greenwood long considered Exotica the highlight of his career, and it remains a seminal turning point, a film that quietly but undeniably altered his career.
		Exotica made its world premiere at The Cannes International Film Festival in May, 1994, and after winning the International Film Critics Award there made a much heralded tour of various festivals, the most important venue being The Toronto International Film Festival in September, 1994.
	www.brucegreenwood.com /mov-tv/exotica/index.html (479 words)

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		Centred on a strip club called Exotica, the film weavestogether the tales of an accountant, a pet shop owner, a stripper,the club's MC, and its owner into a rich narrative laced with loveand regret.
		Exotica was Egoyan's lastoriginal film screenplay in the 1990s.
		To make this film as personal as itneeded to be, I had to reflect on who I was 20 years ago and compare that person to who I am now.
	www.writersguildofcanada.com /magazine/articles/ararat.html (1084 words)

	Exotica/Lounge Downloads - Download Exotica/Lounge Music - Download Exotica/Lounge MP3s
		Exotica and Lounge were two of the prime styles of easy listening music in the '50s and '60s -- so symbolic of the sound of their era that they seemed to define easy listening in the minds of many listeners, particularly those that came upon the genre in its '90s revival.
		[+] Continue Exotica and Lounge were two of the prime styles of easy listening music in the '50s and '60s -- so symbolic of the sound of their era that they seemed to define easy listening in the minds of many listeners, particularly those that came upon the genre in its '90s revival.
		Exotica is usually arranged for standard orchestras, with instrumentation added according to the location being evoked (ethnic percussion, string instruments, etc.); some exotica also borrows the weird, otherworldly sound effects that define the space-age pop style.
	www.mp3.com /exotica-lounge/genre/927/subgenre.html (3956 words)

	Exotica Reviews
		EXOTICA (not to be confused with EROTIQUE which was released in the US at about the same time) is a Canadian film.
		EXOTICA is a new dramatic thriller from Canadian director Atom Egoyan, who brings us this fascinating glimpse into the life of Francis Brown (Bruce Greenwood), a Canadian tax auditor whose life intertwines with a his brother and niece, an exotic...
		The Exotica is a nightclub on the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and sort of MC/animateur, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs.
	www.killermovies.com /e/exotica/reviews (254 words)

	The Pleasure and Pain of "Watching": Exotica
		The film's themes intersect imaginatively, for example, in the purchase of exotica, most prominently the "experiences" at the club or the hyacinth macaw eggs that Thomas smuggles through customs.
		Leonard Cohen's voice intones wryly in a song in the film, "Everybody's got this feeling/Like their father or their dog just died." Francis loses both daughter and wife and constructs a fantasy life to pretend that Lisa is somehow still alive.
		The film however seems to imply that those of us who escape the traumas of childhood are unlikely to remain unscathed as adults.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/exotica.html (1967 words)

	Exotica - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		Exotica, a study of obsessed characters, is heavier on the id than the ego.
		The film's title comes from the name of the strip club that contains most of the proceedings, but the subject matter is obsession.
		Exotica's performances are all good enough to overwhelm the oddities of the story.
	feedmyego.com /movies/E/Exotica1994.html (261 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Exotica
		And even though the transparent and sometimes offensive sexual and racial metaphors littered throughout the film imply that the writer or director has a point to make, we're damned if we can tell what that point is. If navel-gazing introspection is what passes for cerebral these days, then this movie certainly qualifies.
		In the film, Exotica is a strip club, within which many of the shadier scenes take place.
		The film revolves around four characters: Eric, the dirty-mouthed MC; Christina, Eric's former lover and now a stripper at the club; Francis, an IRS auditor and a patron of the club; and Thomas, a rare bird smuggler.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/exotica.html (752 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- DVD Review -- Exotica - ****
		Exotica was the first Atom Egoyan film to receive wide release and achieve relative commercial success.
		The picture is a bit soft and dark, so dimly lit scenes such as those inside the Exotica lose some detail, but this suits the somber and melancholy mood of the film.
		Exotica certainly cannot be described as a mainstream film, but it will appeal to a wider audience than most Egoyan films because of its more visceral and somewhat less cerebral perspective.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/exotica.htm (627 words)

	Exotica . Tucson Weekly . 03-30-95
		Kirshner has received raves for her performance, which requires her to do a lot of gyrating around with her shirt unbuttoned, but don't be fooled: This is not an erotic movie, and the unbuttoning of a shirt is about as hot as it gets.
		His film has been touted as a "puzzle of the heart," but all I saw was a puzzle.
		The only good thing about Exotica is the knowledge that scores of dirty old men will flock to the theaters expecting to be turned on, only to have two hours of passionless film-school pretension dumped in their laps.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/e/exotica_f.html (682 words)

	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		As the film progresses, it isn’t hard to see that the plight of the pigs evokes not just the lot of one woman but the fate of her family and, indeed, of her slum-dwelling people.
		There is no edifying lesson at the end of this brave film because Insiang is, as Brocka described it, an “immorality tale.” As the characters begin to recognize their fundamental hopelessness, they turn to destructive acts that carve out their niches in hell.
		This reversal of melodramatic build-up forces the film to meander in the middle, exploring peripheral characters and constructing an elaborate cosmology of the slums before resuming its course toward the violent climax foreshadowed at the start.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/so06/insiang.htm (1358 words)

	Title page for ETD etd-06292005-110338
		Films like Next of Kin (1984), Family Viewing (1987), Speaking Parts (1989), The Adjuster (1991), and Calendar (1993) attracted a devoted art house following for Egoyan in his own country but never really connected with an international audience on a large scale.
		It was the 1994 release of Exotica, a film distributed by Miramax, which finally brought Egoyan a level of commercial success and recognition from American film audiences, but some critics, almost immediately noted that Exotica marked a pronounced change in his artistic direction.
		This framework recognizes that the pre and post Exotica films are about attempts to come to terms with something larger than an individual’s immediate experience and that this progression is directly correlated with the exploration of the psychological process of denial.
	www.lib.ncsu.edu /theses/available/etd-06292005-110338 (244 words)

	Review of "Exotica" (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Viewing it again (this time actually paying attention to the story), I found Exotica to be not only one of the most intriguing, stimulating (no, not like that), provocative and just plain brilliant films of it's year, but also one of the most fantastic flicks of all time.
		One of the great qualities of Atom Egoyan's masterpiece Exotica (which, in case you were wandering, is not a porn flick) is the utter simplicity of it's storyline.
		He goes to the strip club Exotica (hence the title) every other night to watch one of the dancers put on a private show for him ("Five dollars is all it takes, genlemen, for them to show you the mysteries of their world" barks the DJ).
	www.filmaholic.net /reviews_retexotica.html (649 words)

	Exotica
		Okay, that might not be completely fair, because many films in the "straight to video thriller" genre feature strippers and they're pretty dull, but that's in a different way; those movies stink in a "poorly made movie with no coherent plot or characters" way.
		As is typical of films distributed by Disney (Miramax is their subsidiary), the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Yes, the movie doesn't look particularly good, but I had to also consider the director's intentions; this film was supposed to look dark, so I can't give the DVD a tremendously low rating for replicating the original design.
	www.dvdmg.com /exotica.shtml (1190 words)

	Exotica (R, 1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is a film that literally is character development: it starts with what seem to be disconnected episodes in various peoples' lives, then gradually reveals why all of them are doing what they are doing and how it all fits together.
		There is a strange connection between the two of them, one that is deeply melancholy and personal rather than sexual, and his visits to the club seem to be their unique way of expressing this.
		If someone had asked me an hour into the film who the second most important character was, Thomas would have been my obvious choice, but he eventually recedes into the background to make room for Eric and Christina.
	members.aol.com /KTPattersn/exotica.html (575 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter . Newcity Chicago . 12-29-97
		While immaculately crafted, Egoyan's earlier films, such as "Speaking Parts" and "Family Viewing," were steeped in a chilly regard for how layers of media--the commonplace of home videos and answering machine messages--increase rather than narrow the gulf of interpersonal communication.
		His stories would escalate into the baroque, as characters became obsessed with bit-players in B-movies or were shown living lives of domestic banality, photographed by the filmmaker in the manner of television soap operas.
		By the time of the international success of "Exotica," the gamesmanship existed mostly in the artful layering of plot strands woven into an intricate if artificial whole cloth.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/s/sweethereafterthe1.html (337 words)

	Film Review from an Exotica Fan’s Perspective: Breakfast of Champions
		One theme in the movie that many Exotica fans will appreciate is the theme of paradise, embodied in the movie with the car dealership’s "Hawaiian Week" promotion.
		Much of the film takes place at Hoover’s business, "Dwayne Hoover’s Exit 11 Motor Village." This locale is first introduced in the film by Denny’s similarly named "Quiet Village" and the song is used later in the film in similar context.
		All but the last four appear on the movie’s soundtrack CD, unfortunate only in the they could have easily fit onto the CD which is only 40 minutes long (and, doubly so since some of those tracks have never made it to CD).
	www.kevdo.com /exotica/boc-review.html (640 words)

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