Genre:
Drama
Distributor:
Artificial Eye Film
Rating:15
Release Date:
25th April 2014 (UK Cinema) 31st March 2014 (BIFF)
Director:
Joanna Hogg
Cast:
Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston
With her previous two films, Joanna Hogg has garnered a reputation as one of Britain’s best directors. Both Unrelated and Archipelago ruminated on the tensions bubbling beneath the calm surface of middle-class families as they holidayed in Tuscany and the Scilly Isles respectively. Her third film, Exhibition, confirms her reputation but departs from this familial situation by concentrating on a couple, two artists known only by their initial, D (Viv Albertine, formerly of the Slits) and H (Liam Gillick, a Turner Prize nominated artist), as they play out their discord in their magnificent modernist home in west London. The tensions are still there, the couple mainly communicating via intercom, but the emphasis is on the neuroses of D. She is fearful of sharing her work with H, worried that his criticisms will stop her work before it has begun. She is fearful of venturing out of her house at night, and of her husband doing so, in case something was to happen to them. And she is fearful of selling their home, a move which would enable them to enjoy a quieter life away from the city, so frightened is she of letting go and of the change this move will entail. Ryan Gilbey wrote, “As close to horror as a movie can get without blood being spilt,” and how true this statement proves to be. In showing the fears and anxieties of modern day living from the perspective of D, the film feels like a Haneke without the sudden bursts of violence.
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