The Party

  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Sally Potter
  • United Kingdom 2017
  • 71 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Sally Potter’s dark drawing-room comedy unfolds in real time in a house in London in the present day. Janet is hosting an intimate gathering of friends to celebrate her promotion to Shadow Minister of Health in the party of opposition. Soon, guests arrive, secrets surface and the soirée gradually unravels.

“This sketch of an ambitious Westminster politician and dinner-party hostess, whose life comes spectacularly apart before the canapés are even served, is a consummate drawing-room divertissement, played with relish by a dream ensemble.” - Guy Lodge, Variety

Filmography: Yes (2004), The Man Who Cried (2000), Orlando (1992).


  • Director Sally Potter
  • Production Christopher Sheppard, Kurban Kassam
  • Script Sally Potter
  • Cinematography Alexey Rodionov
  • Editing Anders Refn, Emilie Orsini
  • Festivals Berlinale, London
  • Actors Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Bruno Ganz
  • Source Lev Films and Cinemas