Word: egoyan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
People who use other people don't always know that they're using them. So says Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan in his handsome, quirky comedy THE ADJUSTER. Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is one such user, an insurance claims adjuster whose sensitivity to his clients' suffering extends to having sex with nearly all of them, from frowsy couples to purring studs to a burnt-out stunner (the lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things...