Exotica film poster
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| Directed by | Atom Egoyan |
| Produced by | Atom Egoyan |
| Written by | Atom Egoyan |
| Starring | Mia Kirshner Elias Koteas Sarah Polley Victor Garber Bruce Greenwood |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) | May 16, 1994 |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | CAD 2 million [1] |
| Box office | $4,221,036[2] |
EXotica
Synopsis
- Note: The story of Exotica is not told in chronological order and important information is often revealed only late in the film. The following synopsis does not reflect the viewer's actual experience of the events as they unfold.
Francis hires a teenaged girl named Tracey Brown (Sarah Polley) to babysit each night while he attends the nightclub. But Francis has no child and the girl waits in an empty house each night until her employer returns.
In his professional life, Francis is a tax auditor for Revenue Canada, and Thomas (Don McKellar) is a latent-gay pet store owner whose books of account Francis is auditing pursuant to a suspicion of Thomas running an illegal import business with revenues of $200,000 per year.
Francis is eventually banned from the club when Eric manipulates him into touching Christina during one of her dances (which is against the rules of the club). Around the same time, Francis discovers illegal activities in Thomas' financial records, and forces Thomas to get involved in his conflict with Eric—and we eventually learn that Francis' obsession with Christina has much more complex roots than it first appears. The film's final scene, set many years before the others, shows that the death of Francis' daughter and the discovery of her body is central to the lives of the main characters.
Cast
- David Hemblen - Customs inspector
- Mia Kirshner - Christina
- Calvin Green - Customs officer
- Elias Koteas - Eric
- Bruce Greenwood - Francis Brown
- Peter Krantz - Man in taxi
- Don McKellar - Thomas Pinto
- Arsinée Khanjian - Zoe
- Sarah Polley - Tracey Brown
- Victor Garber - Harold Brown
- Damon D'Oliveira - Man at opera
- Jack Blum - Scalper
- Billy Merasty - Man at opera
- Ken McDougall - Doorman
Awards
- At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, Exotica was nominated for the Palme d'or, and won the FIPRESCI Prize.[3]
- Exotica won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
- Don McKellar was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 1996 Chlotrudis Awards for independent film.
- Exotica won Best Foreign Film from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics in 1995.
- At the 1994 Genie Awards for Canadian cinema, Exotica won Best Motion Picture, as well as awards for the best screenplay, direction, music, costume design, cinematography and production design. Don McKellar won the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
- Exotica was named Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- To judge from his own account, Egoyan was quite amused by an unlikely award that this film won: the Adult Video News award for Best Alternative Adult Film of 1996.
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/business
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=exotica.htm
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Exotica". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
Notes
- Egoyan, Atom, "Dr. Gonad", Granta #86 (Summer 2004) touches upon Egoyan's unlikely Adult Video award.
External links
- Film critic Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" essay about Exotica
- Exotica at the Internet Movie Database
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