Cert 15
105 mins
BBFC advic: Contains strong sex and strong language
Ah, it's time for a Joanna Hogg movie and that means nearly two hours in the company of people so alien to me that they might as well live on Jupiter.
Hogg's work is much acclaimed by movie critics but I struggled with Exhibition for exactly the same reasons as her previous works, Unrelated and Archipelago.
Again, this is a story of 'arty' middle-class people making life difficult for themselves.
The saving grace here is that I like the central character, D (Viv Albertine) more than those in Exhibition's predecessors.
That's not saying much - I loathed pretty much everyone in those movies.
Anyway D appears to suffer from a combination of ennui (a word which is only used with regard to the middle classes) and what appears to be agoraphobia.
She is being levered out of a home she loves (to be fair, it is wonderfully unique) by a husband (Liam Gillick) whose only interest in her appears to be for sex.
But much of the above is supposition because the couple are so uptight that they never have a meaningful conversation.
Thus, D, spends a lot of her time staring into space while contorted like a live art installation.
Oh, and she takes her clothes off so much that I now feel as if I have intimate knowledge of her private parts.
Are all middle class arty types stressed out over not much? It would appear so if Hogg's films are anything to go by.
Perhaps they need a good dose of poverty or some real tragedy in their lives to waken them up and perhaps she needs to challenge herself and make a gritty action picture.
On the other hand, she will not care less what I think because the London critics (who tend to be middle-class arty types) all seem to love her.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: yes
Overall rating: 4.5/10