Director James Toback, who wrote Warren Beatty's award-winning gangster film 'Bugsy', has had a raw deal from Hollywood. His earliest films, 'Fingers', with Harvey Keitel (also in 'Exposed', in the title role, and 'Love and Money', with Klaus Kinski (father of 'Exposed's heroine Nastassia), were dogged by bad handling by the studios and they quickly disappeared from view. 'Exposed' fared little better. It's an intelligent if illogical thriller set in the world of high fashion and involving international terrorism. And although not all the loose ends are successfully tied up by its explosive final reel, it's an intriguing brew. As usual with a Toback film, it's populated with an implausibly high number of beautiful women, but at least a woman has centre stage here as well. The questionable acting of Kinski and ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev merely adds to the air of mystery about their respective characters. And the backing score is an eclectic blend of sounds from severe classical music - during an exciting chase through the Parisian streets - to such Fifties hits as 'The Locomotion' and 'La Bamba'.

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