Go ahead, laugh when I tell you that this film set in a strip club is as seriously intended as a tax audit. Actually, a tax audit is in there, too. But we're jumping ahead. Just don't confuse
Exotica with the flashy lap-dancing epic
Showgirls currently being shot in Vegas by director Paul Verhoeven with an NC-17 rating in mind. Flashy is not in the film vocabulary of Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan, whose five previous films (
Next of Kin, Family Viewing, Speaking Parts, The Adjuster and
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