Actors: Don McKellar, Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas, Bruce Greenwood, Arsinée Khanjian
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Exotica
EXOTICA is a movie written, produced and directed by armenian-canadian director Atom Egoyan in 1994. Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival.
Toronto, Canada. Francis Brown is a government tax inspector who spends all his evenings at the Exotica, a night club presenting young beautiful women who, for 5 $, perform striptease acts for the club's customers. Francis has developed a strange obsession for Christina, one of the girls, and asks for her every night. The only rule of the place : don't ever touch the performer. The DJ of the club is Eric, a character played by Elias Koteas, Christine's former boy-friend who soon becomes terribly jealous of Francis. Eric even persuades Francis to touch Christina during the show. After having done so, the naive Francis is kicked out of the club.
Meanwhile, other stories involve Thomas Pinto, the owner of a pet shop, who spends his nights at the opera house, looking for the right male companion. Thomas is also involved in some strange eggs traffic that Francis has to unravel by examining Pinto's books.
Little by little, one learns that Lisa, Francis's daughter, has been raped and murdered some years ago and that his wife was cheating on him with his brother later on. Since then, Francis lives in his obsessional world, trying to find Lisa in Christine.
One of the best movies of the nineties. A masterpiece.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Exotica
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- seduction (yum!)
Family, loving
Yes
Special relationship with
- daughter
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- rape
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
Lover is...
- totally uninterested
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- government investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
Misc setting
- theater
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- spiritual
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- lesbians!
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of dancing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
