By Tom McSorley
One of Canada's pre-eminent auteur filmmakers, Atom Egoyan has been celebrated across the world, incomes a number of awards from the celebrated Cannes and Toronto movie gala's and an Academy Award nomination. one among his so much finished and arguable early works, The Adjuster, is a dismal drama concerning the advanced and excessive dating among an assurance adjuster and his clients.
In this obtainable research, Tom McSorley lines the genesis, construction, and reception of Egoyan's fourth characteristic movie, from its Cannes movie pageant premier to its North American advertisement free up. The publication locates The Adjuster within the greater context of Canadian cinema history's strange and infrequently bothered evolution, and gives a provocative interpretation of the film's targeted research of the malaise of materialism in North American tradition. Richly illustrated and that includes new interview fabric with Egoyan himself, this examine within the Canadian Cinema sequence deals an insightful overview of 1 of Atom Egoyan's such a lot looking, unsettling films.
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