EXOTICA
(Canada 1994)
 

Alliance Communications Corporation
presents
An Ego Film Arts production
Produced with the participation
of Telefilm Canada
and the Ontario Film Development
Corporation.

 
Producers 
 Atom Egoyan

 Camelia Friedberg
Associate Producer 
 David Webb
Director 
 Atom Egoyan
Production Co-ordinator 
 Roland W. Schlimme
Production Manager 
 Sandra Cunningham
Location Manager 
 Victoria Harding
Assistant Directors 
 David Webb

 Fergus Barnes

 Michele Rakich
Screenplay 
 Atom Egoyan
Script Supervisor 
 Joanne Harwood
Director of Photography 
 Paul Sarossy
2nd Unit Director of Photography 
 Mark Willis
Steadicam Operator 
 David Crone
Editor 
 Susan Shipton
Production Designers 
 Linda Del Rosario
   Richard Paris
Set Dressers 
 Doug McCullough

 Brent Kelly

  Linda Del Rosario

  Richard Paris

 Garth Brunt
Scenic Artists 
  Steven Willets

 Bill Koon
Special Effects Supervisor 
 Michael Kavonaugh
 Costume Design 
 Linda Muir
Make-up 
 Nicole Demers
Tattoo Artist 
 Alison Ethier
Hairstylist 
  Debra Johnson
Title Design 
 Greg van Alstyne 
Titles/Opticals 
 Film Opticals of Canada
Music 
 Mychael Danna
Music Mixer 
 David Bottrill
Music Editor 
 Paul Shikata

 

Songs/Music Extracts

“Everybody Knows” 
by Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson,
performed by Leonard Cohen;

“Flame Of Desire”, “Real Love”
by John Grimaldi,
performed by Studebaker John and The Hawks;

“Fresh Has Just B’Gun”, “Fresh Has Just B’Gun Remix”
by Courtney Cunningham, Franz Malvoism, Kevin Coleey, Philip Cole,
performed by MVP;

“Ave Generosa”, “Je vous pri”, “A chantar”
performed by The Toronto Consort;

“Impromptu, Op. 90, no. 4”
by Franz Schubert,
performed by Eve Egoyan
 
 
 

Choreography 
 Claudia Moore
Sound Design 
 Steve Munro
 Dialogue Editor 
 Sue Connly
 ADR Editor 
 Peter Winninger
Foley Recordist 
 Tony van den Akker
Sound Recordist 
 Ross Redfern
Re-recording Mixers 
 Daniel Pellerin
   Peter Kelly
   Keith Elliott
Foley Artist 
 Andy Malcolm
Stunt Co-ordinator 
 Ted Hanlon

 

Starring/Cast

Francis 
 Bruce Greenwood
Eric 
 Elias Koteas
Thomas 
 Don McKellar
Christina 
 Mia Kirshner
Zoe 
 Arsinée Khanjian
Tracey 
 Sarah Polley
 Customs Inspector 
 David Hemblen
Customs Officer (Ian) 
 Calvin Green
Man in Taxi 
 Peter Krantz
Man at Opera #1 
 Damon d’Oliveira
Man at Opera #2 
 Billy Merasty 
Scalper 
 Jack Blum
Doorman 
 Ken McDougall
Harold 
 Victor Garber


Länge/length
 
9,332 feet (2844 metres)
[Sight and Sound]
2953 metres/Meter
[IMDb]
2833 metres/Meter
[Fischer Film Almanach]

103 minutes, 35mm, colour, Dolby stereo
1.66:1 [DVD video]
 

Shooting/Dreharbeiten:
about/ca. 5 weeks/Wochen,
beginning on/beginnend am June 14/14. Juni, 1993
Première: May/Mai 1994
International Film Festival, Cannes
 

Book
Egoyan, Atom: EXOTICA,
introduction by Geoff Pevere
[includes interview with Egoyan and script for Exotica]
Toronto 1995 (Coach House Press)
ISBN 0–88910–475–1
 

Soundtrack
EXOTICA
Music composed by Mychael Danna
Varèse Sarabande Records, Inc., 1994. # VSD-5543
(for Europe: Colosseum Schallplatten GmbH, 90471 Nürnberg, Germany)
Running time: 49'43''

 


‘In telling the story of Exotica, I wanted to structure the film like a striptease, gradually revealing an emotionally loaded history. The characters in the film move through a series of rituals and routines that define their loneliness and sense of despair. At times these activities may seem perverse or absurd as people transform their pain into self-made myths and legends. It is my belief that human find nothing more absorbing than the exoticism of their own experience.’
— Atom Egoyan

Deutsche Übersetzung (Presseheft):
„Ich wollte EXOTICA so erzählen, daß der Film wie ein Striptease strukturiert ist, wobei nach und nach eine von starken Emotionen geprägte Geschichte freigelegt wird. Die Personen im Film absolvieren eine Reihe von Ritualen und Gewohnheiten, die ihrer Einsamkeit und ihrem Gefühl von Verzweiflung Ausdruck geben. Manchmal, wenn die Personen ihren Schmerz in ihre selbsterfundenen Mythen und Legenden verwandeln, mag dies pervers oder absurd erscheinen. Meine persönliche Meinung ist, daß die Menschen nichts stärker fasziniert als die vermeintlich exotische Natur der eigenen Erfahrung.“
Atom Egoyan

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