Exposure
“Exposure is brash, a slap in the face of Ireland's sentimental image of itself. The three roving Dublin surveyors are anything but good-natured, Rabelaisian philosophers with a wench on each arm and a twinkle in the eye. Hickey has compared the film in theme to Renoir's Une Partie de Campagne, for both show what happens when city folk attempt an idyllic trip to the countryside, and sex rears its head. Into the surveyors' midst steps A Woman; like a Sadie Thompson she disrupts everything just by being there. This modern day Ireland is as stark and rocky as a Synge play, but without a trace of Synge's redemptive native poetry. Hickey's style in Exposure is stark, the landscape monotonous, and his playboys of the western world are impotent.” -Gerald Peary