The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Exhibition is challenging, sensual, brilliant film-making.
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Director
Joanna Hogg
Cast
Viv Albertine,
Liam Gillick,
Tom Hiddleston,
Harry Kershaw,
Mary Roscoe,
Carol McFadden
Genre
Drama
An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Exhibition is challenging, sensual, brilliant film-making.
IndieWire by Eric Kohn
Exhibition infuses its cerebral exposition with a strong dose of humanity.
Boston Globe by Peter Keough
Maybe not entirely depersonalized, however. Hogg has a point of view and a point to make, cryptic though they may be.
Total Film by Kevin Harley
Hogg humanises the set-up with ripples of warmth, but it’s her evocation of a horror-style psychodrama through hints of domestic disquiet that lingers with you.
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
Exhibition succeeds in making us feel deeply uncomfortable for peering into other people’s lives.
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
Hogg withholds the specifics, and lets you decode things for yourself. Her camera rarely moves, but every shot is composed with total artistry, building to a final image that’s somehow both joyful and devastating.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
Beautifully shot with an acute eye for crisp composition, this intimate mood piece explores the subtle intricacies and low-level power struggles of long-term love in forensic detail.
Empire by Kim Newman
Hogg’s films are never conventional stories, but this is a rewarding and affecting watch.
CineVue by Ben Nicholson
While it is serious, Hogg also manages to insert some oddball humour and a little hopeful levity into the proceedings. The fractures provide the absolutely riveting subject matter, but Exhibition shows the potential for healing and confirms its director's place at the forefront of intriguing British filmmakers.
Variety by Leslie Felperin
With acute sensitivity, Brit writer-helmer Joanna Hogg’s third feature, Exhibition, explores the difficulty of telling inside from outside, intimacy from estrangement, and revelation from concealment.
The Playlist by Jessica Kiang
There is beauty here, and exquisite craft in both the pictures and the minutely designed soundscape, and there are some truly chewy ideas thrown up about the porosity of the boundary between public and private that would have lent terrific, atmospheric texture to a film... But there is little connection to the characters.
Village Voice by Nick Schager
A film that's all airy, abstract pretentiousness.
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