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...Atom Egoyan is talking about his new film, "Exotica," while wrestling with a messy club sandwich at the Four Seasons Hotel (Please see review, right.) The film's distributor is working Egoyan very hard: six cities in seven days. The promotional tour involves lunching with journalists, discussing his work at screenings, like the one at the Harvard Film Archive on February 21st, and producing an answer when asked whether he plays the guitar professionally or for his own enjoyment...
...Armenian family in an otherwise Anglo community, where the director says he "tried desperately to assimilate at all costs." With warmth characteristic throughout the afternoon, he recounts anecdotes from those times. "My sister's name is Eve," Egoyan says, "I had to go through my childhood with jokes about Atom and Eve.'" The director was attracted to drama from an early age, finding in it a way of creating, "a system where people could behave the way I wanted them to, since so much of the world around me was not behaving the way I wanted...
Egoyan and his 1986 film, "Family Viewing," gained international media attention when director Wim Wenders declined his award for "Wings of Desire" at the 1987 Montreal Film Festival saying, "This is a great honour, but I ask you to give the award to my Canadian colleague, Atom Egoyan." Since then, Egoyan has become a regular at every major international festival, a member of the jury at the 1995 Sundance Festival, and a darling of both critics and audiences for films such as "Speaking Parts" (1989), "The Adjuster" (1991) and "Calendar" (1993). Egoyan is currently working on Elsewhereness, an opera...
directed by Atom Egoyan...
Nothing is quite what it appears to be in "Exotica," Atom Egoyan's latest film. This might be a result of the Canadian director's interest in investigating subjects Hollywood usually forgets about: deep feelings and authentic people which do not fit into neat formulas or fulfill obvious expectations...