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...disparate." Ararat's disparate yet connected lives include a production aide named Raffi (David Alpay), who vanishes to Turkey in search of his roots and returns with what he claims is extra footage for Saroyan's film; his mother, Ani (Egoyan's real-life wife, Arsinée Khanjian), an art historian and adviser on the fictional film; Celia (Marie Josée Croze), Raffi's stepsister, who blames Ani for their "freedom-fighter" father's death; and David (Christopher Plummer), the customs inspector who interrogates Raffi on his return to Toronto. The characters talk endlessly. "The opposite of denial...
Although maybe a bit tired, Egoyan is relaxed and approachable, even circulating a picture of his wife and young son, who appears in utero with his mother, Arsinee Khanjian, in "Exotica." Egoyan also seems to have figured out what people are interested in learning from film-makers, since he offers the same information at the Four Seasons luncheon and the Carpenter Center screening, with almost identical wording...
...Thomas' illegal operation, he offers to let him off the hook in return for a small favor: going to Exotica to talk to his favorite dancer, Christina (Mia Kirshner). She is the light to which all characters are attracted, including the club's owner Zoe (a very pregnant Arsinee Khanjian) and her ex-lover Eric (Elias Koteas), the club's deejay...
...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 out, deciding what has value and what doesn't." The Adjuster has value: it finds wit and melancholy in all these warty souls...
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