Emergency Exit weaves its elements together with loose precision without tying them down…. In close contact with Brecht's visually powerful text about the scorned hotel scullery maid Jenny and her revenge fantasies, the b&w 16mm images shimmer wildly and unsteadily: First, the a cappella singing sprays its venom over idyllic river views and snapshots of tourist groups of people on a historic bridge. (Searching for the emergency exit!) Then, for most of the film, there follows a solo portrait in two passes […] Standing in front of a bakery poster in her baseball cap, Angela Crupano looks as though she was pulled out of the crowd on the bridge by the filmmaker. However, the cunning wrath of Pirate Jenny is rhymed with above all the engaging seriousness with which Crupano returns the gaze of both cameras.