Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been appointed Shadow Minister of Health, the crowning achievement of her career, and decides to celebrate by hosting a dinner party for a few close friends. But as the guests arrive, her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) makes a shocking announcement, leading to a cascade of explosive revelations and unravelling the soirée even before the canapés are served. As people’s illusions about themselves and each other – whether romantic, political or existential – go up in smoke, a night that began with champagne ends with blood on the floor.
=0D=0A=The Party’s award-winning writer/director Sally Potter describes her film as an anti-Brexit statement about a ‘broken England’ which comes through brilliantly thanks in part to the all-star cast including Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, and Bruno Ganz. It is a dark, savage satire of the British bourgeois, exploring the deeper truths behind seemingly liberal convictions with insight and a killer wit.
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