Title: Exhibition
Release Date: 2014-06-20
Genres: Drama
High essence:
"The two protagonists of Exhibition are known only by their initials, D (musician Viv Albertine, guitarist for femme punk band the Slits ) and H (conceptual artist Liam Gillick, a contemporary of the now-not-so-Young British Artists who came to prominence in the 1990s).""Hogg's approach is something that might be called asatirical: the anxieties of the bohemian classes are held up for stringent inspection, but not ridicule."
"D has been married to H (Liam Gillick) for nearly 20 years, and the two are in the midst of a quiet domestic crisis that only gradually reveals context."
"LEARN MORE Sections Home Search Skip to content Skip Turn for a Townhouse Search Log In 0 | Exhibition, direcd by Jna Hdit Kino Lorber Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Share This Page Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story The real star of Exhibition, the third feature by the British filmmaker Joanna Hogg , is an austere but elegant, ultramodern townhouse in West London."
"The house recorded this long, happy marriage, she laments to a friend, as if nothing can be the same without it."
Medium essence:
Leslie Felperin:- They spend most of their time and the movie padding from their individual home offices to the bedroom to the living room of their lushly glazed modernist house (designed by architect James Melvin, to whom the film is dedicated), somewhere in the borough of uber-wealthy Kensington and Chelsea, and they.
- Leslie Felperi With acute sensitivity, Brit writer-helmer Joanna Hogg's third feature, Exhibition , explores the difficulty of telling inside from outside, intimacy from estrangement, and revelatin from concealment.
- The two protagonists of Exhibition are known only by their initials, D (musician Viv Albertine, guitarist for femme punk band the Slits ) and H (conceptual artist Liam Gillick, a contemporary of the now-not-so-Young British Artists who came to prominence in the 1990s).
Peter Bradshaw:
- The former lead singer of the Slits, Viv Albertine, and the Turner-nominated artist Liam Gillick play a childless couple, identified as D and H, both contemporary artists and evidently of considerable private means, able to follow their vocations without worrying about money.
- Hogg's approach is something that might be called asatirical: the anxieties of the bohemian classes are held up for stringent inspection, but not ridicule.
- D and H's comfortable existence is not there to be tortured and lacerated, although at one point there is a very Hanekerian confrontation with a man who has had the bad taste to park in H's private slot.
Chuck Bowen:
- There are plenty of resonances, but they're fussy and lifeless (the title has at least three meanings, though the most prominent contrasts the couple's exhibition of the house with D's exhibition of herself, two quests that end in irresolute torment).
- Overall, the film's educational prerogatives tend to overwhelm its more interesting formal properties.
- D has been married to H (Liam Gillick) for nearly 20 years, and the two are in the midst of a quiet domestic crisis that only gradually reveals context.
Stephen Holden:
- LEARN MORE Sections Home Search Skip to content Skip Turn for a Townhouse Search Log In 0 | Exhibition, direcd by Jna Hdit Kino Lorber Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Share This Page Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story The real star of Exhibition, the third feature by the British filmmaker Joanna Hogg , is an austere but elegant, ultramodern townhouse in West London.
- Married, childless artists in their 50s, the couple identified only as D (Viv Albertine, an alumna of the rock group the Slits) and H (Liam Gillick, a well-regarded Conceptual artist) work on separate floors connected by an elevator and a spiral staircase, and communicate via intercom.
- Another astoundingly intimate scene shows her masturbating as H sleeps beside her.
Eric Kohn:
- The house recorded this long, happy marriage, she laments to a friend, as if nothing can be the same without it.
- But D's conundrum provides only one substantial piece of the larger exploration of relationships that defines its central themes.
- At its center, middle aged couple H (conceptual artist Liam Gillick) and performance artist D (Viv Albertine, former guitarist for British punk band The Slits) prepare to move out of their spacious London home and cope with the impact of the move on every facet of their daily life.
Low essence:
Leslie Felperin:- They spend most of their time and the movie padding from their individual home offices to the bedroom to the living room of their lushly glazed modernist house (designed by architect James Melvin, to whom the film is dedicated), somewhere in the borough of uber-wealthy Kensington and Chelsea, and they.
- Once in a while, he calls her on the phone's intercom system, indirectly proposing a bout of sex to break up the day.
- With its crisp right angles and clanging spiral staircase, its complex system of sliding doors and whispering garden of wind-ruffled foliage, the house is a third protagonist in the story, the pampered and adored child substitute for D and H.
- In negotiations with the real-estate agents (one of whom is played by Tom Hiddleston , who made his bigscreen debut in Unrelated ), D and H try to ensure that no one buys the house planning to tear it down or even change it.
- Leslie Felperi With acute sensitivity, Brit writer-helmer Joanna Hogg's third feature, Exhibition , explores the difficulty of telling inside from outside, intimacy from estrangement, and revelatin from concealment.
- It was so palpably obvious to British ears, based on accent alone that Blighty's capital was where those characters from Unrelated and Archipelago lived most of the time, even if the films themselves were set in vacation homes in, respectively, Tuscany and Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly.
- The two protagonists of Exhibition are known only by their initials, D (musician Viv Albertine, guitarist for femme punk band the Slits ) and H (conceptual artist Liam Gillick, a contemporary of the now-not-so-Young British Artists who came to prominence in the 1990s).
Peter Bradshaw:
- The former lead singer of the Slits, Viv Albertine, and the Turner-nominated artist Liam Gillick play a childless couple, identified as D and H, both contemporary artists and evidently of considerable private means, able to follow their vocations without worrying about money.
- When on her own, D does a great deal of masturbatory squirming and fantasising; she dictates her dreams into a machine on waking and often falls asleep hunched against walls or on window sills, like a cat.
- Tom Hiddleston has a cameo as a sleek, courtier-like estate agent.
- Hogg's approach is something that might be called asatirical: the anxieties of the bohemian classes are held up for stringent inspection, but not ridicule.
- D and H are a world away from, say, Alan Bennett's Stringalongs, and they are also subtly different from Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as the troubled couple in Michael Haneke's 2005 drama Hidden, who like D and H live high-status lives almost barricaded inside a gorgeous modern home in the middle of a capital city.
- D and H's comfortable existence is not there to be tortured and lacerated, although at one point there is a very Hanekerian confrontation with a man who has had the bad taste to park in H's private slot.
- As for D's mental state, is she losing it or gaining it?
Chuck Bowen:
- Exhibition is one of those films in which the act of depriving you of even rudimentary details is worn as a badge of artistic honor; the film practically dares you to be bored with it.
- Hogg's in love with a particular metaphor where we see the foreground and background of the image blend together, mixing the chambers of the home with the surrounding neighborhood via a reflective surface (usually a window) that creates an almost abstract landscape.
- It seems that every other shot is arranged through shades or off of a mirror, and it grows redundant: D feels closed off, a bystander to her own life, wrapped up in her regard and her own carefully managed environment.
- There are plenty of resonances, but they're fussy and lifeless (the title has at least three meanings, though the most prominent contrasts the couple's exhibition of the house with D's exhibition of herself, two quests that end in irresolute torment).
- Overall, the film's educational prerogatives tend to overwhelm its more interesting formal properties.
- It sticks firmly to a Kerouac-lite immersion into young love rather than a more provocative portrait of the hazards inherent to modern urban life.
- D has been married to H (Liam Gillick) for nearly 20 years, and the two are in the midst of a quiet domestic crisis that only gradually reveals context.
Stephen Holden:
- LEARN MORE Sections Home Search Skip to content Skip Turn for a Townhouse Search Log In 0 | Exhibition, direcd by Jna Hdit Kino Lorber Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Share This Page Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story The real star of Exhibition, the third feature by the British filmmaker Joanna Hogg , is an austere but elegant, ultramodern townhouse in West London.
- Married, childless artists in their 50s, the couple identified only as D (Viv Albertine, an alumna of the rock group the Slits) and H (Liam Gillick, a well-regarded Conceptual artist) work on separate floors connected by an elevator and a spiral staircase, and communicate via intercom.
- Because the movie concentrates on D and her fears, it is left unclear exactly what H produces besides intricate architectural designs glimpsed on a computer.
- Even then, it is very withholding of psychological information and rarely voices ideas.
- Another astoundingly intimate scene shows her masturbating as H sleeps beside her.
- D is an impatient person who, during a dinner party with neighbors, becomes so bored by the chitchat that she pretends to faint so that she and H can leave immediately.
Eric Kohn:
- The house recorded this long, happy marriage, she laments to a friend, as if nothing can be the same without it.
- But D's conundrum provides only one substantial piece of the larger exploration of relationships that defines its central themes.
- At its center, middle aged couple H (conceptual artist Liam Gillick) and performance artist D (Viv Albertine, former guitarist for British punk band The Slits) prepare to move out of their spacious London home and cope with the impact of the move on every facet of their daily life.
- The movie develops a hypnotic appeal through a succession of fragmentary moments: D, first seen in her home office quietly sketching a self-portrait, communicates with her husband through an intercom connected to another part of the house, the first indication of a burgeoning disconnect between them.
Source:
http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/locarno-film-review-exhibition-1200576330/
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/24/exhibition-review-joanna-hogg
http://www.indiewire.com/article/review-michael-haneke-meets-miranda-july-in-joanna-hoggs-compelling-exhibition
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/movies/exhibition-by-joanna-hogg-looks-at-a-long-term-relationship.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/exhibition