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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
ABOUT DRY GRASSES 15:00, 19:10
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: THE DOOM GENERATION 17.00
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (DOUBLE BILL) 13.40
CROSSING 11:40, 20:40
I SAW THE TV GLOW 15.40, 18.00
LA CHIMERA 14:10
NOTES FROM SHEEPLAND 14:00, 18:50
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11:10
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 20:15
THE SATURDAY SERIAL: INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY 11.00
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