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Title: Egoyan entering his peak
Review: Outside of his experiment with Calendar, this was Atom Egoyan entering his mastery of writing and filmmaking with his 1-2 punch of The Adjuster and Exotica.The usual cast is all here: Elias Koteas, Atom's wife, and Maury Chaykin. Similar in thematic content to many of Egoyan's films, Koteas is a man who job forces him to encounter people and families at the moment of crisis. He cannot resist getting involved in their lives to further understand their drives and motivations. At the same time, his wife is a film censor who secretly tapes the movies she screens and brings them home for her sister.Again no one can seem to really speak with each other except in a cursory manner. Instead they rely on these other conventions to communicate. Extremely sad, odd, and relevatory.
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