Popular character actor Peter Coyote plays the unlikely hero of EXPOSURE, an uneven though suspenseful revenge melodrama with a high-art gloss.
Based, in fact, on a novel entitled High Art by Rubem Fonseca, who also wrote the screenplay, this Rio de Janeiro-set thriller casts Coyote as Peter Mandrake, an art photographer whose images of the sordid side of Rio have made his books international bestsellers. However, we know he's in
existential trouble from the opening voiceover in which he describes a personal malaise that keeps him in Rio even though he knows he should leave. Coming out after dark, Mandrake obsessively roams the streets, snapping roll aft...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins