Atom Egoyan's dreamlike and empathetic international breakthrough is both a spellbinding narrative puzzle and one of the defining independent films of the 1990s. At a neon-drenched Toronto strip club, a coterie of lost and damaged souls search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis.
Atom Egoyan's dreamlike and empathetic international breakthrough is both a spellbinding narrative puzzle and one of the defining independent films of the 1990s. At a neon-drenched Toronto strip club, a coterie of lost and damaged souls search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis.
