Torontoist: Reel Toronto: An Exotic Slice of Egoyan: Torontoist checks out the local scenes from Atom Egoyan’s flicks, including Exotica, one of two films featuring a strip joint where exotic dancers shed their costumes and perfromed gymnastic feats to a Leonard Cohen-enhanced sound track. It’s your lucky day; The Heck of a Guy post, Women Disrobe While Leonard Cohen Music Plays - Yet, Something Feels Wrong, ponders Cohen’s music in both movies, Exotica and Dancing At The Blue Iguana.
Excerpt from Torontoist: You’re looking for a classy peeler, right? The kind of place that has both full frontal and Leonard Cohen on the soundtrack? You don’t mind if the MC is a bit of a creepy guy who delivers lengthy, quasi-esoteric monologues? Well, then Exotica is the place for you. Sadly, Exotica does not actually exist. Reel Toronto’s team of detectives determined that the club exterior is merely the back of a store on Mutual Street, located between Queen and Shuter. As you can see above, the spires of Metropolitan United Church provide a fine contrast to the towers of commerce lingering behind in the financial district.
