
Billy, a fetish photographer who specializes in staged depictions of dead women, becomes involved in a murder mystery when one of his models turns up dead for real. Michael, a depressed police detective, investigates the crime and probes him as to why he chooses to involve himself in the world of exploitation and fetish. He can not explain why he does what he does, except that he accepts that he is attracted to certain ideas and women. As the two men become friendlier, Michae... (Full plot summary below)
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Billy, a fetish photographer who specializes in staged depictions of dead women, becomes involved in a murder mystery when one of his models turns up dead for real. Michael, a depressed police detective, investigates the crime and probes him as to why he chooses to involve himself in the world of exploitation and fetish. He can not explain why he does what he does, except that he accepts that he is attracted to certain ideas and women. As the two men become friendlier, Michael becomes more involved in his photo shoots. Eventually, the true killer is revealed.
Leave your thoughts about 24 Exposures.
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThroughout, Joe Swanberg connects Generation Y's fetish for past pop-cultural kitsch to its attending sexual insecurities. |
| The PlaylistDrew Taylor24 Exposures has a handful of interesting ideas, and a lot of cute topless girls, but it doesn’t add up to much. |
| Spectrum CulturePat PaduaWhy do so many indie movies treat women like this? |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyLike countless Swanberg films (the prolific director has completed 17 features in less than a decade), 24 Exposures is populated by characters who are defined not by their actions, but by their unwillingness to act. The difference here is the presence of an exterior force—the murders—that makes Swanberg’s naturalistic style seem affected. |
| Chicago ReaderBen SachsSome half-baked ideas about representation versus reality emerge in the lax improvised dialogue. |
| Under the RadarStephen Danay24 Exposures filters its lurid subject matter through the low-key, DIY aesthetic which Swanberg and his collaborators have cultivated over the past decade. |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThis outing will please Swanberg's followers but lacks the polish required to attract a broader genre audience. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThis latest, a thriller about a photographer who might be a killer, is wild pop fly that disappears in the stands. |
| CraveOnlineBrian FormoThere's enough that's done well in 24 Exposures that makes me wish Swanberg had gone the polished route with better actors and a larger crew. |
| The DissolveMike D'Angelo24 Exposures is a transparent auto-critique (or self-justification, depending on how you look at it) in the form of a rather vague thriller, and doesn’t work particularly well in either mode. |