Friday, 18 January 2019: The Party
Friday, 18 January 2019, 20:00
Venue: (see Locations and Tickets for further details)
Programme category: Forest Row Film Society
Director: Sally Potter, United Kingdom 2017, 71 mins, PG
“A consummate drawing-room divertissement played with relish by a dream ensemble”. Variety
Janet (Kristen Scott Thomas) is celebrating with an intimate dinner party while her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) is in a more sombre mood. The Party has wonderful pithy dialogue throughout, and some great comic moments as a series of revelations unfold.
“Patricia Clarkson steals the show, but everyone in Potter’s gifted cast gets their moment to shine in a sharp-edged, claustrophobic parlour piece that puts the boot into middle-class mores”. Empire
Further reading
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- Sally Potter website
- Time Out
- The Guardian interview with Sally Potter
- The Observer
- The Guardian, Berlin Film Festival
- R4 The Film Programme with interview with Sally Potter
- The Hollywood Reporter
- The New York Times
