The Party (2018)
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
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My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. Well we started. She abandoned it first, I got about half-way.The first problem is there is no clear story line. It turns out to be a party to celebrate one woman's getting appointed to a government position, a number of friends come over to her house. But the characters are all too quirky and the dialog too unrealistic. There are a few "glowing" reviews here but I suspect most if not all are shill reviews to get people to see the movie. I am a great movie fan, I have written thousands of reviews here over the past 20 years, in general I really like British movies, but this one is definitely a movie for only a very narrow section of movie fans. For those of you who really like it, I applaud you. But I believe most will find it just about as I did. A waste of time.
First, it didn't look like a party, second, the dialogue fell short. Too short. I did giggle at times, what is good. Loved the characters but they didn't got the time to get alive on the screen. So it was an below average movie. Nothing to remember about..
This is a terrible movie. It tries to be witty like "Le prenom" but is just 70 minutes of superficial talk by dull characters. Also it wants to be fascinating and fun like "Carnage", but fails miserably at establishing anything. Whoever is interested in cliches might be amused by it. However, if u like to see three-dimensional characters thinking and acting in a reasonable manner, the only joy this film offers you is to laugh at its conceitedness.
What is there to like in this movie? I honestly wouldn't know. It is about a group of friends who don't behave as friends. Performed by a star cast, acting as a second rate theatre group. It is all very staged, with timing far too robotic. Cardboard characters feeling sorry for themselves. It's impossible to sympathize for any of these whining posers. Oh, and it is shot in black-and-white, with experimental camera standpoints galore, in order to emphasize the pretentious pseudo-artistic, pseudo-intellectual crap we could so do without. Positive note: it doesn't last long