Episode 112: Exotica

The gang welcome back writer/director/actor Emily Bennett to discuss the cycle of emotional vulnerability and unresolved grief contained within the titular strip club in Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica. Follow Emily on Instagram. And check out her podcast The Tower. (Oh, and the Jennifer Jason Leigh movie that Leslie refers to during the episode is Heart of Midnight (1988).) Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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