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Oct 12, 2017 · As fast and funny as “The Party” is, it says a lot about her oeuvre that the film, her most accessible, is a black-and-white, 71-minute, real-time tale of mortality and betrayal. It’s as...
Feb 16, 2018 · Scott-Thomas’ character, Janet, is a progressive idealist turned successful politician, and the title party, a small affair, is meant to celebrate her promotion in the British government.
NYT Critic’s Pick. R. Biography, Drama, History. Directed by Ali Abbasi. In this ribald fictional telling of a young Trump’s rise, the man responsible is the lawyer Roy Cohn, played to sleazy...
Feb 16, 2018 · Ever unpredictable, the writer-director Sally Potter returns with a brief (barely over an hour, sans credits) and darkly amusing specimen of the dinner-party-from-hell subgenre, aptly named The...
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Feb 16, 2018 · The movie starts with Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) opening the door and pointing a gun at one of her unseen guests. The guests are friends of her and her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) who are celebrating Janet’s peak as a career politician.
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Jan 26, 2018 · The Party concerns itself with a dinner party between friends, hosted by Janet, the new Shadow Minister of Health for the opposition party, which descends into an ensuing comedy of tragic proportions (as the poster so elegantly puts) with each successive revelation and tribulation.
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