Description: Forbidden desires and dangerous intrigue generate sizzling heat in this erotic thriller! At a sexy strip club called Exotica, three strangers -- an obsessive man, an erotic table dancer, and the club's mysterious D.J. -- share much more than is apparent at first glance! As their secret passions grow, they become more deeply entangled in an inescapable web of jealousy, deceit, and revenge! The powerfully seductive hit EXOTICA is gripping entertainment -- you won't be able to take your eyes off it!
Amazon.com: In spite of its atrociously misleading packaging, Exotica is a beguiling mystery by enigmatic Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in which people and their relationships are not what they seem. What at first appear to be disparate stories of a tormented tax auditor, a lonely pet-shop owner, and a sensitive stripper and her coworkers gradually merge to reveal a larger, interconnected portrait. The sequences involving Mia Kirshner's schoolgirl stripper are particularly engrossing because of her character's intelligence and the scenes' deeper subtext. Indeed, Exotica is less about stripping than about fragile human relationships, and it is not until the truly revelatory final scene that we are able to fully absorb the film's deeper meaning. --Bryan Reesman
Digital Life Reviews
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Boring, long, wrong title!
If you buy this movie thinking that you buy an exotic or "erotic" (judging by the cover) movie you are WRONG! The movie is so boring and the story so long and stupid that the director should have definately picked another title for it! Exotic? where? This is one of those "delicatessen" movies that a few people judge as good because some "real" reviewers (were they drunk?) judged as good,
There isn't really anything interesting about it and there isn't anything that keeps you from wanting to watch it to the end (besides the question: when does this movie get cool?), so don't waste your time and money on it!
Rating: - More of a woman's POV movie than might be expected
Atom Egoyan's Exotica is an outstanding movie. I have seen Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997) which is also very good. A father's (obsessive) love for his daughter(s) is featured in both movies, consequently the theme must mean something special to Egoyan. He is a most talented and original movie maker, a Canadian as are his players, Bruce Greenwood, (Francis Brown, the accountant whose daughter was murdered), Sarah Polley, (Tracey, the high school girl), and Mia Kirshner, (Christina, the exotic dancer). His wife, Arsinee Khanjian and Polley were also featured in The Sweet Hereafter.
What really makes the movie is Egoyan's use of time and action sequence. He cuts up the chronological order of events and then presents them in a dramatic way. This is not so easy to do. Christopher Nolan in Memento (2000) used the same technique to great advantage. I have come late to such a technique and would ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie, poor transfer
I won't go very far into discussing the content of the film here - suffice to say that I think it's probably one of the greatest movies made in recent years and well worth 5 stars. Atom Egoyan is a genius and this is probably his best film to date - an atmospheric mystery which keeps the viewer guessing until the final reel. The script is a masterpiece, Egoyan deftly handles the story and the actors (even the very young ones) all play their roles with the right level of depth and subtlety. As others have said, although the story takes place in and around a strip club this is not your average soft porn strip club movie - not at all, it's a different thing altogether - even the movie's title has many meanings and layers, as does the story itself. 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. It's a psychological ... Read More
Rating: - "You Have To Ask Yourself What Brought The Person To This Point?"
This is an undiscovered gem of a film with an incredibly inventive and powerful script that is sure to suprise and please. 'Exotica', a "Gentleman's Club", is the focal point of a world in search of meaning. Men come not just to watch beautiful women sensually dance in various stages of undress. They come to forget, however briefly, the pain and suffering they have experienced in the world outside.
Christina (Mia Kirshner) and Eric (Elias Koteas) work at the club, Christina as a dancer, Eric as the DJ. As the customers watch the enchanting Christina perform on-stage and privately, Eric watches the customers watch her. As you might have guessed, while moods and emotions are generally muted and controlled within the confines of Exotica they are forever on the verge of breaking through the illusory nature created and sustained by alcohol and sexual stimulation. There are untold stories to be brought into ... Read More
Digital
Life Shop
Atom Egoyan items subject to availability. Some restrictions
may apply. DVD
Exotica presented by digi2005.com Digi2005.com is
an Amazon.com
Associate
Digital Life Music News:
Bbc Tv
Colleyville Courier - http://Amazon.com/music Shop Online with the BBC America Shop Shop with BBCAmericaShop.com through links at ShopToGo.com. Also find free valuable coupons, special deals and reviews for more than 1,400 of the Web's stores and services. Affiliate. http ...
more News
- Boring, long, wrong title!
- More of a woman's POV movie than might be expected
- Great movie, poor transfer
