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Director
Kieran Hickey
Credits
Producer: Cathal Black. Writer: John McGahern, Cathal Black
Principal Cast
Brendan Ellis, Michael Duffy, Maura Keeley
Category
ShortFirst Wave
A socially dissident drama from director Kieran Hickey, Exposure is a courageous assault on a smothering cultural conservatism prevalent in Ireland in the 1980s. Three surveyors – married men Dan (T.P. McKenna) and Eugene (Bosco Hogan) and single man Oliver (Niall O’Brien) – stationed at a rural hotel on a work assignment, are the figures with which Hickey launches his attack. Spending the weekend drinking and misbehaving, the trio’s seeming equilibrium is shaken the arrival of mysterious French divorcee Caroline (Catherine Schell) begins to expose the men’s often immature, stunted attitudes towards women and adult relationships. An indictment of sexual and societal repression in a recognisably modernised Ireland, Exposure is a brave and thematically rich work, managing to weave in a debate about the power of images and looking into its fiery social critique.
48 minutes, Ireland, 1978, Colour
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: TASTE OF CHERRY 18.00
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:10, 18:30
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (DOUBLE BILL) 12.50
BALTIMORE 16:20
IFI & ONE DUBLIN ONE BOOK: EDUCATING RITA 15.30
IFI TALKS: KIAROSTAMI PANEL DISCUSSION 14.00
IO CAPITANO 13:40
JEANNE DU BARRY 15:40, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 11:00, 20:40
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 11:00, 20:20
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 20:50
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