Post by mikef6 on Jun 23, 2018 18:17:13 GMT
British independent.
The Party / Sally Potter (2017). This is a superb example of the couples-meet-for-dinner-and-murky-depths-are-revealed genre of film and play but it is also a brilliant satire of those kinds of shows as more and more outrageous revelations are made. It is shot in black & white with the great cast of Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimore, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, and Cillian Murphy. The film starts immediately with a door being opened to reveal Scott Thomas. She raises a pistol and points it at the camera. After the opening credits, we flashback to the start of the evening party and then lead up to that opening shocker. Janet (Scott Thomas) has been promoted to a top job in the British government. She and husband Bill (Spall) are throwing an little do to celebrate. Their guests are Janet’s close friend April (Clarkson) and April's partner Gottfried (Ganz). April starts the party off by announcing at once that she and Gottfried are separating. Next are the May-December gay couple Martha and Jinny (Jones and Mortimore). Only one half of the final couple arrives, Tom (Murphy) who is in bad shape, sweating badly, looking on the verge of a breakdown. He immediately retreats to the bathroom to sniff coke. And this is just the beginning. Serious, even tragic, yet more often than not wildly funny. One of the best films of 2017.
The Party / Sally Potter (2017). This is a superb example of the couples-meet-for-dinner-and-murky-depths-are-revealed genre of film and play but it is also a brilliant satire of those kinds of shows as more and more outrageous revelations are made. It is shot in black & white with the great cast of Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimore, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, and Cillian Murphy. The film starts immediately with a door being opened to reveal Scott Thomas. She raises a pistol and points it at the camera. After the opening credits, we flashback to the start of the evening party and then lead up to that opening shocker. Janet (Scott Thomas) has been promoted to a top job in the British government. She and husband Bill (Spall) are throwing an little do to celebrate. Their guests are Janet’s close friend April (Clarkson) and April's partner Gottfried (Ganz). April starts the party off by announcing at once that she and Gottfried are separating. Next are the May-December gay couple Martha and Jinny (Jones and Mortimore). Only one half of the final couple arrives, Tom (Murphy) who is in bad shape, sweating badly, looking on the verge of a breakdown. He immediately retreats to the bathroom to sniff coke. And this is just the beginning. Serious, even tragic, yet more often than not wildly funny. One of the best films of 2017.
