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Exotica

1994, Movie, 1h 44min

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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Reviews

Critic Roger Ebert

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...a deep, painful film about those closed worlds of stage-managed lust.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Kim Newman

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Exotica is Egoyan's largest to date, letting us get to know a cross-section of oddballs who cluster round a single location, the eponymous strip club...

Read full review at Empire

Jan Parrilla Zinther

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Amazing and gentle story

3 years ago

Frequently asked questions

What is Exotica about? Toggle content

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, a depressed tax auditor named Francis becomes obsessed with dancer Christina, visited her nightly and paying for private dances. Christina's ex-boyfriend, Eric, the club's MC, still pines for her and becomes jealous of Francis' attention towards her. Meanwhile, Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is drawn into their lives, and connections between their traumatic pasts are slowly revealed, leading to a dramatic and unexpected climax.

Where can I stream Exotica? Toggle content

You can stream Exotica on: The Criterion Channel

What movies are similar to Exotica? Toggle content

Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Exotica include School Ties, Fight Club, Dead Poets Society, The Shawshank Redemption, Magnolia, Boogie Nights.

When was Exotica released in theaters? Toggle content

Exotica was released in theaters on March 3, 1995.