Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is an insurance claims adjuster who attends to his clients’ every need—including their sexual ones. His wife, Hera (Arsinée Khanjian), is a government censor who spends her days and nights obsessively watching pornography for both work and pleasure. When they become involved with Bubba (Maury Chaykin) and Mimi (Gabrielle Rose), a wealthy couple with a taste for kinky role-playing, the Renders’ lives are turned upside down in this surreal puzzle from Atom Egoyan. Criterion Collection
The Adjuster will be presented with a live introduction by filmmaker Atom Egoyan.
With eighteen feature films and related projects, Armenian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has won numerous awards including five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival – the Grand Prix, International Critics Awards and Ecumenical Jury Prizes – two Academy Award® nominations, twenty-five Genie Awards – now Canadian Screen Awards – including three Best Film Awards – prizes from the National Board of Review and an award for Best International Adaptation at The Frankfurt Book Fair. Seven Veils, Egoyan’s most recent film, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2023, before its International Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, and was Opening Night Gala at the Yerevan International Film Festival in Armenia in 2024.
Pair with Curious Minds // Toronto: Cinema City - with Eric Veillette - Week 3: Classified by the Ontario Board of Censors (Saturday, June 20).
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Photo credits: Courtesy of Johnnie Eisen, © Ego Film Arts