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.