EXHIBITION World Cinema

In director Joanna Hogg’s third feature, married artists known only as D and H (played with commendable naturalism by former punk singer Viv Albertine and artist Liam Hillick) find dormant anxieties and buried frustrations bubbling to the surface after they agree to sell their home of 18 years. The London house, a stunning modernist work designed by the late architect James Melvin, is fascinating in its multiple functions: aside from a living space, it’s a studio for D to conceptualize her performance pieces; a maze of cavernous rooms that serve to isolate D and H from each other; and an insular environment shielding the bourgeois couple from the outside world. When D and H venture outside the house, the results tend toward startling confrontations or surreal flourishes (note the tuba player whose instruments breathe fire), but Hogg’s expertise lies in revealing the uncomfortable truths that reveal themselves in mundane routines.