Party, The

Date

Hour

Place

03/08

16:15

THE LUBELSKIE CINEMA

DESCRIPTION

An exquisite farce set in the world of bourgeoisie. Janet throws a house party for her closest friends to celebrate her promotion to Minister of Health in the British government. The guests include the sarcastic April and her husband Gottfried, an advocate of natural medicine; an emancipated lesbian couple—Martha and Jinny, over a dozen years her junior; an oddly nervous banker Tom, who starts the party with snorting a line of cocaine in the toiler. He sits in the middle of the room, apathetic and silent, sipping on his wine and sometimes playing some eccentric music from a vinyl record. The tension escalates.

AWARDS

2017 Berlin IFF – nominated for Golden Bear

DIRECTOR

Sally Potter (1949) Born in London. Studied choreography and dance at London Contemporary Dance School. Soon gained fame as a performance artist and theater director. In 1992, she made her second fill-feature film, Orlando, based loosely on the novel by Virginia Woolf, which obtained two Academy Awards nominations (for set decoration and costume design) and won fame for both Potter and Tilda Swinton, who plays the main male role.

FILMOGRAPHY