Joanna Hogg has been one of the most distinctive British directors to emerge in the past five years and, in the wake of Unrelated and Archipelago, she finally moves into an urban setting with Exhibition.
Artist couple D and H (Viv Albertine, guitarist of seminal punk group The Slits, and Turner-nominated artist Liam Gillick) prepare to sell the modernist home that has defined their relationship for almost two decades.
As always in Hogg’s films, the setting — previously Tuscany and the Scilly Isles, here the apartment — is the third character in a sparse, confidently choreographed work of cinema unlike anything else being produced in the UK.
Exhibition screens at the BFI London Film Festival on Sat Oct 19, Curzon Mayfair, 6.15pm; Sun Oct 20, Renoir, 3.15pm
