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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 153433" data-attributes="member: 22">The Party (2017)<img src="https://1645110239.rsc.cdn77.org/image/f330x470/q50/mm/been/movies17847/posters/the-party-1.20190201000000.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> This was only seventy minutes, but I lost patience and gave up halfway through. Despite an impressive cast -- Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Katz, etc. -- it just felt very phoney, like a not-very-good stage play. From what I saw, it&#039;s essentially one long scene that takes place at a posh dinner party, where everyone&#039;s got their own storyline and/or secret, but none of it feels real. I think it&#039;s meant to be set in London but I&#039;m not sure. The multi-national casting works against the sense of place -- they just feel like a bunch of random high profile actors slumming it in a low-budget movie rather than real people who genuinely know each other. It&#039;s not that Kristin Scott Thomas couldn&#039;t be married to Timothy Spall, or Patricia Clarkson to Bruno Katz, I just don&#039;t buy it in this context. Quite liked Cillian Murphy&#039;s coke head though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 153433, member: 22"] [I][U]The Party (2017) [IMG]https://1645110239.rsc.cdn77.org/image/f330x470/q50/mm/been/movies17847/posters/the-party-1.20190201000000.jpg[/IMG] [/U][/I] This was only seventy minutes, but I lost patience and gave up halfway through. Despite an impressive cast -- Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Katz, etc. -- it just felt very phoney, like a not-very-good stage play. From what I saw, it's essentially one long scene that takes place at a posh dinner party, where everyone's got their own storyline and/or secret, but none of it feels real. I think it's meant to be set in London but I'm not sure. The multi-national casting works against the sense of place -- they just feel like a bunch of random high profile actors slumming it in a low-budget movie rather than real people who genuinely know each other. It's not that Kristin Scott Thomas [I]couldn't[/I] be married to Timothy Spall, or Patricia Clarkson to Bruno Katz, I just don't buy it in this context. Quite liked Cillian Murphy's coke head though. [I][U] [/U][/I] [/QUOTE]

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