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- THE PARTY Special Presentation - BFI London Film Festival 2017
THE PARTY Special Presentation - BFI London Film Festival 2017
A brilliant ensemble cast get their teeth stuck into Britain's political elite in Sally Potter's biting and supremely entertaining satire. At the BFI London Film Festival 2017, Sally Potter and the cast joined BFI Festivals Director, Clare Stewart, on stage for a discussion of the film.
Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been appointed Shadow Minister for Health and has invited some friends around to celebrate. Her dazed husband (Timothy Spall) seems happy enough to see razor-tongued April (Patricia Clarkson), but struggles to check his intolerance of flagrant new-ager Gottfried (Bruno Ganz). Next to arrive are Martha (Cherry Jones), described by April as ‘a first-class lesbian and a second-rate thinker', and her wife Jinny (Emily Mortimer), but things seriously derail when unhinged and chemically-enhanced banker Tom (Cillian Murphy) bursts in looking for his wife. Dinner always appears to be on the cusp of being served but never quite arrives.