The Adjuster Review
In 1991, three years before he gained international attention with Exotica, unorthodox Canadian filmmaker Atom_Egoyan added to his already considerable reputation as a daring adventurer by making The Adjuster. As he had done in such previous films as Family_Viewing, Egoyan masterfully scripted mundane situations involving seemingly unremarkable people -- in this case an insurer adjuster -- that peeled away to reveal psychosexual and emotional quagmires. Egoyan's customary troupe of players includes Elias_Koteas as the nosy insurance man and Egoyan's wife Arsinée_Khanjian as a hypocritical film censor. Difficult, risqué, and rife with Egoyan's customary deadpan, flat dialogue, The Adjuster has many of the elements that would be so masterfully realized in Exotica, and the film is a must for fans of the idiosyncratic Egoyan. By the end of the decade, he would be established as an uncompromising filmmaker with such more acclaimed, more accessible films as The_Sweet_Hereafter and Felicia's_Journey. Michael Betzold, Rovi
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