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The Party

A celebratory gathering of old friends rapidly descends into violence and mayhem once a shock announcement leads to a series of revelations.

  • StatusCompleted
  • DirectorsSally Potter
  • WriterSally Potter
  • ProducersChristopher Sheppard
  • GenreComedy
  • CastKristin Scott Thomas
    Patricia Clarkson
    Cillian Murphy
    Timothy Spall
    Emily Mortimer
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 A beautifully conceived and executed chamber comedy/drama with tragedy at its core. 

- RogerErbert.com

 Demonstrates what can happen when a filmmaker takes on a well-worn cinematic subgenre - the dinner party gone horribly wrong - and strips it down to its blistering bare-bones essence. 

- Los Angeles Times

 Patricia Clarkson steals the show, but everyone in Potter's gifted cast gets their moment to shine in a sharp-edged, claustrophobic parlour piece that puts the boot into middle-class mores. 

- Empire Magazine

 Over 71 crisp minutes of fast-paced verbal combat, Potter tests the age-old theory that it's all fun and games until somebody gets knocked unconscious. 

- Hollywood Reporter

 A deliciously heightened, caviar-black comedy that sets up its brittle, bourgeois characters like bowling pins and gleefully knocks them down in 71 minutes flat. 

- Variety

 The Party’: A dinner party from hell is heaven for people who love politics and dark humor 

- The Washington Post

 Sally Potter delivers an ensemble comedy of manners in her most enjoyable film to date. 

- Screen International

 You can’t take your eyes off it, and the filmmaker and her cast serve up hilarious verbal fireworks that unexpectedly and indelibly knock the wind out of you. 

- Rolling Stone Magazine

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