British Comedy Guide
The Party
The Party

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.

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The Party review

The tenor of the piece is something like Harold Pinter reworked as Feydeau farce, but there's also a definite state-of-the-nation analysis to this panorama of left-wingers, intellectuals and feminists of a certain age, all reappraising their ideals in a decidedly venal and pragmatic world.

Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily, 13th February 2017

The Party review

Potter's cast is perceptibly having a blast with her savory invective and insults.

Guy Lodge, Variety, 13th February 2017

The Party review

Potter keeps the energy fizzing and the jokes crackling throughout the drama's short span, which unfolds in something like real time.

Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter, 13th February 2017

The Party review

Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a cabinet minister hosting one of those dos at which shock revelation follows shock revelation, in Sally Potter's short, smart comedy.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 13th February 2017

The Party review

The personal and the political clash in The Party, Sally Potter's first film since 2012's Ginger & Rosa. It's a curt, nasty and deftly acted chamber piece high on laughs and savagery about frustrated idealism and how little it takes to make society fall to pieces.

Patrick Gamble, Cine-Vue, 9th February 2017

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