二度見ないと総てのからくりが分らないカナダの映画ですね！字幕はないが、台詞は平易です。ウィキピディアの作品解説（英語）は丁寧ですね！心理的からみと登場人物が収斂していくところは、なるほどでした。場面、場面の謎が後で総て一つになるようです。ピースを集めて結晶とする手法なんですね。
Exotica - 1994. (Drama, Mystery)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNWWxztcx_g←Youtube
Exotica (film)
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Exotica film poster
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| Directed by | Atom Egoyan |
| Produced by | Atom Egoyan Camelia Frieberg |
| Written by | Atom Egoyan |
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| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Release date
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May 16, 1994 (Cannes) March 1995 (wide) |
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Running time
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103 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | CAD 2 million [1] |
| Box office | $5.13 million[2] |
Exotica is a 1994 Canadian drama film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club in Toronto. It is written and directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood and Don McKellar.
The story concerns a father grieving over the loss of a child and obsessed with a young stripper. It was inspired by Egoyan's curiosity by the role strip clubs play in sex-obsessed societies and rules at the time forbidding clients from touching dancers. Exotica was filmed in Toronto in 1993.←ここがポイントですね！娘を誘拐され殺された男が主人公です。映画の舞台は単純に見えます。
Marketed as an erotic thriller on its release in Canada and the United States, the film proved to be a major box office success for English Canadian cinema,and received positive reviews. It won numerous awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and eight Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture.
Plot：このプロットがとても分りいいです。
A tax auditor for Revenue Canada, Francis Brown, is a regular visitor to a Toronto strip club called Exotica. He always has Christina, an exotic dancer dressed in a schoolgirl uniform, give him a private dance. This inspires the jealousy of the club's DJ, Eric, Christina's former boyfriend who has also impregnated the club's owner, Zoe. While at the club, Francis pays his brother Harold's teenaged daughter, Tracey, to "babysit." However, Francis has no children left and the girl merely practices music alone until Francis returns and drives her home. Francis' relationship with Harold is strained, as Francis found outhe and his wife were having an affair after she died in a car accident, which also left Harold a paraplegic. Francis' daughter was kidnapped and killed a few months before the accident, and he was one of the suspects but was later exonerated. All of these events have left a huge psychological scar on Francis.
In his professional life, Francis is sent to Thomas Pinto's pet store to audit books of account pursuant to the suspicion that Thomas is profiting from the illegal import of rare bird species. Thomas has been smuggling hyacinth macaw eggs, and his operation is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Francis is eventually banned from Exotica 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' financialrecords,and blackmails Thomas to go to the club to learn Christina's feelings about Francis. In the process, Francis realizes Eric intentionally set out to get him banned and vows to kill him. Confronting Eric with a gun, Francis is defused when Eric reveals he and Christina were the ones who found the body of Francis' daughter. Christina also reveals to Thomas that she and Francis share a relationship of mutual dependency. In the past when she used to babysit his daughter, Francis would comfort her about her troubled life at home.
Atom Egoyan, CC (born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian stage and film director, writer and producer.Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations, and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009).
His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.
In 2008, Egoyan received the Dan David Prize for "Creative Rendering of the Past".Egoyan later received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest royal honor in the performing arts, in 2015.
He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
Cast
- Bruce Greenwood as Francis Brown
- Elias Koteas as Eric
- Mia Kirshner as Christina
- Don McKellar as Thomas Pinto
- Arsinée Khanjian as Zoe
- Sarah Polley as Tracey Brown
- Victor Garber as Harold Brown
- David Hemblen as Customs inspector
- Calvin Green as Customs officer
- Peter Krantz as Man in taxi
- Damon D'Oliveira as Man at opera
- Jack Blum as Scalper
- Billy Merasty as Man at opera
- Ken McDougall as Doorman
