The Party
- 2017 film
Black and white satirical comedy about a politician's dinner party. Stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 2017
- Stars
- Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer and Cillian Murphy
- Writer
- Sally Potter
- Director
- Sally Potter
- Producers
- Kurban Kassam, Christopher Sheppard, John Giwa-Amu, Robert Halmi Jr. and Jim Reeve
- Companies
Janet has just been appointed Shadow Minister for Health and has invited some friends around to celebrate. Her dazed husband seems happy enough to see razor-tongued April, but struggles to check his intolerance of flagrant new-ager Gottfried.
Next to arrive are Martha, described by April as 'a first-class lesbian and a second-rate thinker', and her wife Jinny, but things seriously derail when unhinged and chemically-enhanced banker Tom bursts in looking for his wife.
Dinner always appears to be on the cusp of being served but never quite arrives.
Additional details
- Tagline
- A comedy of tragic proportions
- UK certificate
- 15
- Duration
- 71 minutes
- UK release
- Friday 13th October 2017
- Produced
- 2016
- UK premiere
- Monday 13th February 2017, Berlin International Film Festival
- Distributors
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white