

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Direction
Egoyan's ice-cold formalism masks genuine emotional devastation.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like therapy notes from a haunted man.
Acting
Koteas smolders with repressed need; Khanjian is magnificently unhinged.

Director
Atom Egoyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Egoyan made this during the Canadian tax-shelter era, part of a wave of intellectually provocative Toronto films that treated sexuality with clinical detachment.
The motel was a real functioning location; Egoyan reportedly kept the rooms disturbingly accurate to actual insurance displacement housing.